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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... reason to think that the Facetic and Poggiana of Poggio were by no means the earliest works of the kind . Many of the novels of Boccaccio are merely repartees and remarks attributed to celebra- ted persons , in the style of the Poggiana ...
... reason to think that the Facetic and Poggiana of Poggio were by no means the earliest works of the kind . Many of the novels of Boccaccio are merely repartees and remarks attributed to celebra- ted persons , in the style of the Poggiana ...
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... reason of his stay , he told him that he was afraid of breaking in upon his solitude . II : MADAME CORNUEL . Madame de Ville Savin having died at the age of ninety - three , Madame Cornuel , who was only six years younger , observed ...
... reason of his stay , he told him that he was afraid of breaking in upon his solitude . II : MADAME CORNUEL . Madame de Ville Savin having died at the age of ninety - three , Madame Cornuel , who was only six years younger , observed ...
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... reason ; but this is a time for mercy , and I entreat your par- don . " " Under such circumstances , " replied Ma- rolles , " it is impossible for me to refuse it . Go , sir , I pardon you . " Meeting him some days after , Marolles said ...
... reason ; but this is a time for mercy , and I entreat your par- don . " " Under such circumstances , " replied Ma- rolles , " it is impossible for me to refuse it . Go , sir , I pardon you . " Meeting him some days after , Marolles said ...
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... author of the Life of Julius Cæsar , which is prefixed to some copies of the Commentaries . XXXIV . CICERO . We have great reason to regret the loss of the Treatises of Cicero , De Gloria , and De Legibus 26 TABLE - TALK .
... author of the Life of Julius Cæsar , which is prefixed to some copies of the Commentaries . XXXIV . CICERO . We have great reason to regret the loss of the Treatises of Cicero , De Gloria , and De Legibus 26 TABLE - TALK .
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... reason to conclude that Cicero was not less eloquent or admirable than in his other productions . Raimond Soranzo , a celebrated Jurisconsult at the Papal Court at Avignon , about the middle of the fourteenth century , was in possession ...
... reason to conclude that Cicero was not less eloquent or admirable than in his other productions . Raimond Soranzo , a celebrated Jurisconsult at the Papal Court at Avignon , about the middle of the fourteenth century , was in possession ...
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