The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... common - place books . In his Eclogues , or Collections , which are written in Greek , and which consist chiefly of stories in illustration of the several moral qualities , he has preserved many curious facts , which are not to be found ...
... common - place books . In his Eclogues , or Collections , which are written in Greek , and which consist chiefly of stories in illustration of the several moral qualities , he has preserved many curious facts , which are not to be found ...
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... common - place book of Stobæus , the gram- matical and historical lexicon of Suidas , the Chiliads of Tzetzes , which comprise six hundred narratives in twelve thousand verses , and the commentaries on Homer of Eustathius , Archbishop ...
... common - place book of Stobæus , the gram- matical and historical lexicon of Suidas , the Chiliads of Tzetzes , which comprise six hundred narratives in twelve thousand verses , and the commentaries on Homer of Eustathius , Archbishop ...
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... common in the titles of works of this class , was scarcely used by the ancients in the sense in which we now employ it . It is a Greek word , and signifies properly anything not yet given forth . Among other things , the Greeks called ...
... common in the titles of works of this class , was scarcely used by the ancients in the sense in which we now employ it . It is a Greek word , and signifies properly anything not yet given forth . Among other things , the Greeks called ...
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... common and natural transference or extension of meaning ) that it was one which had not remained unnoticed from acci- dent , but which there had been some reason for keep- ing secret . Anecdotes usually meant matters of some scandal ...
... common and natural transference or extension of meaning ) that it was one which had not remained unnoticed from acci- dent , but which there had been some reason for keep- ing secret . Anecdotes usually meant matters of some scandal ...
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... common parlance this exclusive appli- cation to secret or unpublished history . Yet Johnson in his Dictionary , first published in 1755 , still defines the word as properly signifying " something yet unpublished ; secret history ...
... common parlance this exclusive appli- cation to secret or unpublished history . Yet Johnson in his Dictionary , first published in 1755 , still defines the word as properly signifying " something yet unpublished ; secret history ...
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