The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... letters was a volume entitled the Speculum Exemplorum , and in the latter and fatter editions the Magnum Specu- lum Exemplorum ; that is , the Great Looking - glass of Examples . An edition of this work in small quarto , printed at ...
... letters was a volume entitled the Speculum Exemplorum , and in the latter and fatter editions the Magnum Specu- lum Exemplorum ; that is , the Great Looking - glass of Examples . An edition of this work in small quarto , printed at ...
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... letter so late as the year 1689 . In one passage of his history , Warton says of this work , " It appears to me to have been formed on the VOL . I. C model of Valerius Maximus , the favourite classic of the UPON TABLE - TALK . 17.
... letter so late as the year 1689 . In one passage of his history , Warton says of this work , " It appears to me to have been formed on the VOL . I. C model of Valerius Maximus , the favourite classic of the UPON TABLE - TALK . 17.
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... letter - press that have ever appeared under this title are the Thesaurus Novus Anecdotorum , or New Treasury of Anecdotes , of the two Benedictine Fathers , Edmund Martene and Ursinus Durand , published at Paris , in five huge volumes ...
... letter - press that have ever appeared under this title are the Thesaurus Novus Anecdotorum , or New Treasury of Anecdotes , of the two Benedictine Fathers , Edmund Martene and Ursinus Durand , published at Paris , in five huge volumes ...
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... letters speaks of having in his possession . He calls them Grotiana , Borboniana , and Naudæana . None of these Ana , how- ever , we believe , have ever been published ; for the collec- tion which appeared at Paris in 1701 , under the ...
... letters speaks of having in his possession . He calls them Grotiana , Borboniana , and Naudæana . None of these Ana , how- ever , we believe , have ever been published ; for the collec- tion which appeared at Paris in 1701 , under the ...
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... letters , and the excite- ment which it administered to the public curiosity im- mediately set men's minds a - craving after further sup- plies of the same sort . These revelations of the private conversation , opinions , and habits of ...
... letters , and the excite- ment which it administered to the public curiosity im- mediately set men's minds a - craving after further sup- plies of the same sort . These revelations of the private conversation , opinions , and habits of ...
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