The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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Charles MacFarlane. old Greek scholiasts and grammarians , extracted from manuscripts in the Royal Library of Paris , and the Library of St. Mark at Venice . Within , however , a comparatively recent period , an anecdote , even when ...
Charles MacFarlane. old Greek scholiasts and grammarians , extracted from manuscripts in the Royal Library of Paris , and the Library of St. Mark at Venice . Within , however , a comparatively recent period , an anecdote , even when ...
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... Royal Historiographer of France , pub- lished by his son in 1695 , ) the Naudæana and Patiniana ( or remarkable Singularities noted down from the con- versation of Gabriel Naudé and Guy Patin , published at Paris in 1701 , and believed ...
... Royal Historiographer of France , pub- lished by his son in 1695 , ) the Naudæana and Patiniana ( or remarkable Singularities noted down from the con- versation of Gabriel Naudé and Guy Patin , published at Paris in 1701 , and believed ...
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... royal descent in a dispassionate and most reasonable tone ; and on that , as well as on all other subjects , he was less vivacious and flighty than most Frenchmen are in the ordinary circumstances of life . His fund of anecdote , the ...
... royal descent in a dispassionate and most reasonable tone ; and on that , as well as on all other subjects , he was less vivacious and flighty than most Frenchmen are in the ordinary circumstances of life . His fund of anecdote , the ...
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... royal Bourbon blood had come among them to solicit their help . The gain to them- selves would not be merely prospective and dependent on the chances of a counter revolution , but immediate and sure , as money might be obtained from the ...
... royal Bourbon blood had come among them to solicit their help . The gain to them- selves would not be merely prospective and dependent on the chances of a counter revolution , but immediate and sure , as money might be obtained from the ...
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... royal highness the Duke of Saxony . Gerunda , the Neapolitan , who knew the country well , and who were royalists and who not , who gullible and who acute , undertook to be the avant - coureur , the swear- ing witness and the trumpeter ...
... royal highness the Duke of Saxony . Gerunda , the Neapolitan , who knew the country well , and who were royalists and who not , who gullible and who acute , undertook to be the avant - coureur , the swear- ing witness and the trumpeter ...
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