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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... Latin before without understanding it ! " XVIII . M. DE L'ESTANG AND MAROLLES . M. de l'Estang is the author of the Port- royal Règles de bien Traduire . He has selected all his specimens of good translation from the works of ...
... Latin before without understanding it ! " XVIII . M. DE L'ESTANG AND MAROLLES . M. de l'Estang is the author of the Port- royal Règles de bien Traduire . He has selected all his specimens of good translation from the works of ...
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... Latin , * and passed off the work as his own ; but afterwards , other copies of the work of Proco- pius were found , and the imposture of Aretin was discovered . Machiavel managed matters more This is not strictly correct , for Aretin's ...
... Latin , * and passed off the work as his own ; but afterwards , other copies of the work of Proco- pius were found , and the imposture of Aretin was discovered . Machiavel managed matters more This is not strictly correct , for Aretin's ...
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... Latin poems of Ni- cholas Barthelemi . The following is the exact ge- nealogy of the Ring of Hans Carvel . + The inven- tion is due to Poggio , the Florentine , who died in 1459. It is the 133d of his Facetiæ , entitled the Vision of ...
... Latin poems of Ni- cholas Barthelemi . The following is the exact ge- nealogy of the Ring of Hans Carvel . + The inven- tion is due to Poggio , the Florentine , who died in 1459. It is the 133d of his Facetiæ , entitled the Vision of ...
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... Latin Anacreontics , by La Mon- noye himself . LII . ORACLES . A person who had some dangerous enemies , whom he believed capable of attempting anything , consulted the Oracle to know whether he should leave the country . The answer he ...
... Latin Anacreontics , by La Mon- noye himself . LII . ORACLES . A person who had some dangerous enemies , whom he believed capable of attempting anything , consulted the Oracle to know whether he should leave the country . The answer he ...
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... LATIN VERSE . GUALTIER DE LILLE . It has been long disputed who was the author of the celebrated verse which has become prover- bial , - " Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim . ” It has subsequently been discovered , that it is ...
... LATIN VERSE . GUALTIER DE LILLE . It has been long disputed who was the author of the celebrated verse which has become prover- bial , - " Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim . ” It has subsequently been discovered , that it is ...
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