The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... title demands . Perhaps he him- self would have preferred that it should be considered an encyclopædia , ( that is , as it may be translated , the whole circle of instruction , ) which he tells us was UPON TABLE - TALK . 7.
... title demands . Perhaps he him- self would have preferred that it should be considered an encyclopædia , ( that is , as it may be translated , the whole circle of instruction , ) which he tells us was UPON TABLE - TALK . 7.
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... translator , Philemon Holland , " notable things , histories , matters memorable , and observations , " has scarcely a claim to this title in its modern use . Of these " histories , " or , as we should now rather call them , stories ...
... translator , Philemon Holland , " notable things , histories , matters memorable , and observations , " has scarcely a claim to this title in its modern use . Of these " histories , " or , as we should now rather call them , stories ...
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... translation ( a very bad one , by the bye , but the only English translation of this author that exists ) may be found , extracted from the Bibliotheca Latina of the learned John Albert Fabricius , and from other sources , a list of ...
... translation ( a very bad one , by the bye , but the only English translation of this author that exists ) may be found , extracted from the Bibliotheca Latina of the learned John Albert Fabricius , and from other sources , a list of ...
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... translation of this work . Nor do we possess any version in our language of a much richer and more copious book of table - talk of those times , the celebrated Deipnosophisto , or Banquet of the Learned , of Athenæus . Athenæus ...
... translation of this work . Nor do we possess any version in our language of a much richer and more copious book of table - talk of those times , the celebrated Deipnosophisto , or Banquet of the Learned , of Athenæus . Athenæus ...
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... translations from Athenæus appeared some years ago in a London periodical publication called The Monthly Mirror . Here also we may mention the nine books of Valerius Maximus , entitled " De Dictis et Factis Memorabilibus Antiquorum ...
... translations from Athenæus appeared some years ago in a London periodical publication called The Monthly Mirror . Here also we may mention the nine books of Valerius Maximus , entitled " De Dictis et Factis Memorabilibus Antiquorum ...
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