The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... person whose name is not known , but who appears to have lived about the year 1480 ; and this en- larged edition professes to be revised and corrected by a learned Jesuit . The examples or stories , it is affirmed , have been extracted ...
... person whose name is not known , but who appears to have lived about the year 1480 ; and this en- larged edition professes to be revised and corrected by a learned Jesuit . The examples or stories , it is affirmed , have been extracted ...
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... Persons , and their Acts and Deeds ; as likewise in the Decrees of Councils and Synods , in Events , and in Epochs . Here the reader hath set before him whatever hath proceeded from the Doctors of the Church , from Poets , from ...
... Persons , and their Acts and Deeds ; as likewise in the Decrees of Councils and Synods , in Events , and in Epochs . Here the reader hath set before him whatever hath proceeded from the Doctors of the Church , from Poets , from ...
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... person who has been vain enough of his achievement to record his name at full length- " Joannes Jacobus Lingius cognomine Hagendorn " was printed at Leipsic in 1672 . - Nothing can go beyond the credulity and absurdity of the worthy ...
... person who has been vain enough of his achievement to record his name at full length- " Joannes Jacobus Lingius cognomine Hagendorn " was printed at Leipsic in 1672 . - Nothing can go beyond the credulity and absurdity of the worthy ...
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... person by whom our early litera- ture was enriched with many other translations from the learned tongues . As Macrobius has been called the ape of Aulus Gellius , so Pliny's ape is a like title of honour that has been con- ferred upon C ...
... person by whom our early litera- ture was enriched with many other translations from the learned tongues . As Macrobius has been called the ape of Aulus Gellius , so Pliny's ape is a like title of honour that has been con- ferred upon C ...
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... persons , and places ; all which are supposed to be mystical , and which are there- fore explained in their moral or practical sense . The Dictionarium Morale is in two parts , and seems princi- pally designed to be a moral repertory ...
... persons , and places ; all which are supposed to be mystical , and which are there- fore explained in their moral or practical sense . The Dictionarium Morale is in two parts , and seems princi- pally designed to be a moral repertory ...
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