The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... reading people have been fond ever since reading began ; and a complete catalogue of the various dishes of intellectual hotch - potch , which this taste has called forth both in the ancient and the modern world , would considerably ...
... reading people have been fond ever since reading began ; and a complete catalogue of the various dishes of intellectual hotch - potch , which this taste has called forth both in the ancient and the modern world , would considerably ...
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... readers against con- founding this John Wolf with another John Wolf , or rather Wolph , who was Professor of Theology at Zurich , and wrote commentaries , it seems , upon various parts of the Scripture . To be sure , the theological ...
... readers against con- founding this John Wolf with another John Wolf , or rather Wolph , who was Professor of Theology at Zurich , and wrote commentaries , it seems , upon various parts of the Scripture . To be sure , the theological ...
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... reader hath set before him whatever hath proceeded from the Doctors of the Church , from Poets , from Politicians , from Philo- sophers , from Historians , or from others whomsoever of the wise or the learned , of what is pious , grave ...
... reader hath set before him whatever hath proceeded from the Doctors of the Church , from Poets , from Politicians , from Philo- sophers , from Historians , or from others whomsoever of the wise or the learned , of what is pious , grave ...
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... reader's breath , we are sure , fails him ; and we will therefore waive the rest of the learned doctor's trumpeting ... readers have been manured thereby . The generality of them , no doubt , took the whole in with ready and even greedy ...
... reader's breath , we are sure , fails him ; and we will therefore waive the rest of the learned doctor's trumpeting ... readers have been manured thereby . The generality of them , no doubt , took the whole in with ready and even greedy ...
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... reading by putting down everything , how- ever trivial or trite , that came in their way . The whole tone of this preface is modest and unaffect- ed , and gives us a very favourable impression of the author . He had given his book the ...
... reading by putting down everything , how- ever trivial or trite , that came in their way . The whole tone of this preface is modest and unaffect- ed , and gives us a very favourable impression of the author . He had given his book the ...
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