The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... COURT OF SAPYENCE , which abounds with a multitude of historical examples , parables , and apologues , and which the writer wisely sup- poses to be much more likely to interest the attention and excite the devotion of the people than ...
... COURT OF SAPYENCE , which abounds with a multitude of historical examples , parables , and apologues , and which the writer wisely sup- poses to be much more likely to interest the attention and excite the devotion of the people than ...
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... court of the Emperor Justinian , in whose time the writer flourished , and the public transactions of whose reign he has detailed in eight other books . Whether he meant by the term Anecdotes ( if the composition was so en- titled by ...
... court of the Emperor Justinian , in whose time the writer flourished , and the public transactions of whose reign he has detailed in eight other books . Whether he meant by the term Anecdotes ( if the composition was so en- titled by ...
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... court of the Emperor Justinian , " was published at Lon- don , in a duodecimo volume , in 1674 . Whatever the title Anecdotes may have been intended to express in this instance , it has repeatedly been used in modern times to designate ...
... court of the Emperor Justinian , " was published at Lon- don , in a duodecimo volume , in 1674 . Whatever the title Anecdotes may have been intended to express in this instance , it has repeatedly been used in modern times to designate ...
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... Court at Cambridge in that reign , quotes the following entries : " Jane Johnson , adjudged to the ducking - stoole for scoulding , and commuted her penance . " Katherine Sanders , accused by the churchwardens of St. Andrewe's for a ...
... Court at Cambridge in that reign , quotes the following entries : " Jane Johnson , adjudged to the ducking - stoole for scoulding , and commuted her penance . " Katherine Sanders , accused by the churchwardens of St. Andrewe's for a ...
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... court will absolve me from paying you ; if I lose , I am exonerated by our contract . ” The rhetorician answered by a similar dilemma : " If you gain your suit , you must pay me according to our contract ; if you lose the suit , you ...
... court will absolve me from paying you ; if I lose , I am exonerated by our contract . ” The rhetorician answered by a similar dilemma : " If you gain your suit , you must pay me according to our contract ; if you lose the suit , you ...
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