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... learned man in * Novel Abregé Chronologique de l ' Hiftoire de France . tom . i . pag . 126. To this ufeful and entertaining work Voltaire has often been deeply indebted , without confeffing his obligation . + Ver . 171 . C 4 retirement ...
... learned man in * Novel Abregé Chronologique de l ' Hiftoire de France . tom . i . pag . 126. To this ufeful and entertaining work Voltaire has often been deeply indebted , without confeffing his obligation . + Ver . 171 . C 4 retirement ...
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... learned monk of Calabria ; which country having been a colony of Greeks , retained fome traces of their tongue . Soon afterwards Boc- cace learned Greek of Leontius Pilatus , of Theffalonica , who explained Homer to him for three years ...
... learned monk of Calabria ; which country having been a colony of Greeks , retained fome traces of their tongue . Soon afterwards Boc- cace learned Greek of Leontius Pilatus , of Theffalonica , who explained Homer to him for three years ...
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... learned critics were fo well re- ceived , and philofophers themselves difdain- ed not to be of the number ; there could not fail to arife critics of an inferior order , who K 2 1 who would fubdivide the feveral provinces of this empire ...
... learned critics were fo well re- ceived , and philofophers themselves difdain- ed not to be of the number ; there could not fail to arife critics of an inferior order , who K 2 1 who would fubdivide the feveral provinces of this empire ...
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... Venetiis , apud Georgium Arrivabenum , 1515. " + From Sadi , an Arabian Poet , Milton is faid to have taken the grand idea of the bridge over chaos . Gerbert Gerbert learned it from the Saracens , when he made AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 185 .
... Venetiis , apud Georgium Arrivabenum , 1515. " + From Sadi , an Arabian Poet , Milton is faid to have taken the grand idea of the bridge over chaos . Gerbert Gerbert learned it from the Saracens , when he made AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 185 .
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Joseph Warton. Gerbert learned it from the Saracens , when he made a journey into Spain . Gerbert also undertook to make the firft clock , the mo- tion of which was regulated by a balance ; which method was made ufe of till the year 1650 ...
Joseph Warton. Gerbert learned it from the Saracens , when he made a journey into Spain . Gerbert also undertook to make the firft clock , the mo- tion of which was regulated by a balance ; which method was made ufe of till the year 1650 ...
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