Table-talk; Or, Selections from the Ana: Containing Extracts from the Different Collections of Ana, French, English, Italian, and German. With Bibliographical Notices |
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... write in Italian , boast in Spanish , and cheat in Greek . XXXII . RETURNING THANKS . Nothing is more difficult than to return thanks neatly . XXXIII . JULIUS CÆSAR . John of Salisbury , Polydore Virgil , and Lipsius , believed that ...
... write in Italian , boast in Spanish , and cheat in Greek . XXXII . RETURNING THANKS . Nothing is more difficult than to return thanks neatly . XXXIII . JULIUS CÆSAR . John of Salisbury , Polydore Virgil , and Lipsius , believed that ...
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... write in Italian , boast in Spanish , and cheat in Greek . XXXII . RETURNING THANKS . Nothing is more difficult than to return thanks neatly . XXXIII . JULIUS CÆSAR . John of Salisbury , Polydore Virgil , and Lipsius , believed that ...
... write in Italian , boast in Spanish , and cheat in Greek . XXXII . RETURNING THANKS . Nothing is more difficult than to return thanks neatly . XXXIII . JULIUS CÆSAR . John of Salisbury , Polydore Virgil , and Lipsius , believed that ...
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... write in Italian , boast in Spanish , and cheat in Greek . XXXII . RETURNING THANKS . Nothing is more difficult than to return thanks neatly . XXXIII . JULIUS CÆSAR . John of Salisbury , Polydore Virgil , and Lipsius , believed that ...
... write in Italian , boast in Spanish , and cheat in Greek . XXXII . RETURNING THANKS . Nothing is more difficult than to return thanks neatly . XXXIII . JULIUS CÆSAR . John of Salisbury , Polydore Virgil , and Lipsius , believed that ...
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... writer by whom they are used , is Planudes , in a work which he dedicated to Michael Paleologus , in 1370. Thus the Greeks borrowed not from the Arabs , but from the Latins . The first occasion on which they were ... write MENAGIANA . 31.
... writer by whom they are used , is Planudes , in a work which he dedicated to Michael Paleologus , in 1370. Thus the Greeks borrowed not from the Arabs , but from the Latins . The first occasion on which they were ... write MENAGIANA . 31.
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... write to the President in favour of one of my friends , who was involved in a troublesome affair . After puzzling myself for a long time how to make the application , I could re- member nothing better than the letter of Agesilaus on a ...
... write to the President in favour of one of my friends , who was involved in a troublesome affair . After puzzling myself for a long time how to make the application , I could re- member nothing better than the letter of Agesilaus on a ...
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