The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... quarto , printed at Douay in 1605 , consists of between four and five hundred closely - printed double - columned pages . The book , we are told on the title - page , was originally com- piled by a person whose name is not known , but ...
... quarto , printed at Douay in 1605 , consists of between four and five hundred closely - printed double - columned pages . The book , we are told on the title - page , was originally com- piled by a person whose name is not known , but ...
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... quarto volume in 1680 , is by the old doer of all work in that line , Mi- chel de Marolles ; on the title - page of a copy of whose version of Martial's Epigrams Menage wrote " Epigrams against Martial . " The author of the other ...
... quarto volume in 1680 , is by the old doer of all work in that line , Mi- chel de Marolles ; on the title - page of a copy of whose version of Martial's Epigrams Menage wrote " Epigrams against Martial . " The author of the other ...
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... quarto volume in 1576 , under the title of " Elian's Registre of Hystories , by Abraham Fleming , " a person by whom our early litera- ture was enriched with many other translations from the learned tongues . As Macrobius has been ...
... quarto volume in 1576 , under the title of " Elian's Registre of Hystories , by Abraham Fleming , " a person by whom our early litera- ture was enriched with many other translations from the learned tongues . As Macrobius has been ...
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... quarto , a collection of theolo- gical pieces from manuscripts in the Ambrosian Library at Milan , to which he gave the title of Anecdota . This collection is often mentioned as his Anecdota Latina , to distinguish it from another of ...
... quarto , a collection of theolo- gical pieces from manuscripts in the Ambrosian Library at Milan , to which he gave the title of Anecdota . This collection is often mentioned as his Anecdota Latina , to distinguish it from another of ...
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... the French critic Villoison's two quarto volumes of Anecdota Græca , published at Venice in 1781. Villoison's Anecdotes are merely fragments of old Greek scholiasts and grammarians , extracted from manuscripts in UPON TABLE - TALK . 23.
... the French critic Villoison's two quarto volumes of Anecdota Græca , published at Venice in 1781. Villoison's Anecdotes are merely fragments of old Greek scholiasts and grammarians , extracted from manuscripts in UPON TABLE - TALK . 23.
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