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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... never seen . One of these gentlemen anticipating , by an hour or two , the period of the intended visit , ordered the servant to announce M. Racan . He was received with transport . He talked for a long time of Ma- demoiselle Gournai's ...
... never seen . One of these gentlemen anticipating , by an hour or two , the period of the intended visit , ordered the servant to announce M. Racan . He was received with transport . He talked for a long time of Ma- demoiselle Gournai's ...
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... never so well pleased with an anta- gonist , as when he makes an objection to which we are provided with a good answer . XVII . CASAUBON . Casaubon being present during the discussion of a thesis in the Sorbonne , listened to a very ...
... never so well pleased with an anta- gonist , as when he makes an objection to which we are provided with a good answer . XVII . CASAUBON . Casaubon being present during the discussion of a thesis in the Sorbonne , listened to a very ...
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... be a mistake by Bayle ; Article Alcyonius . Varillas , in his Louis XI . , was the author of this calumny . Philelphus never wrote a Trea- tise De Contemptu Mundi . formation with regard to his books . Petrarch , who MENAGIANA . 27.
... be a mistake by Bayle ; Article Alcyonius . Varillas , in his Louis XI . , was the author of this calumny . Philelphus never wrote a Trea- tise De Contemptu Mundi . formation with regard to his books . Petrarch , who MENAGIANA . 27.
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... never could recover the books . If we may believe Paulus Manucius , in his Commentary on the Twenty - Seventh Epistle of Book XV . of Ci- cero to Atticus , the manuscript of the Treatise De Gloria was in the library of a noble Venetian ...
... never could recover the books . If we may believe Paulus Manucius , in his Commentary on the Twenty - Seventh Epistle of Book XV . of Ci- cero to Atticus , the manuscript of the Treatise De Gloria was in the library of a noble Venetian ...
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... never allowed any one to look at it without challenging him on the spot . Having quarrelled with Mondori , the actor , he forbade him to make his appearance on the stage , on pain of his displeasure . " I interdict you , " said he ...
... never allowed any one to look at it without challenging him on the spot . Having quarrelled with Mondori , the actor , he forbade him to make his appearance on the stage , on pain of his displeasure . " I interdict you , " said he ...
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