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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... remarking , as he left the hall , " I never listened to so much 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 ...
... remarking , as he left the hall , " I never listened to so much 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 ...
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... remarked by Galeotus Martius and Paquier in their Researches . This Gualtier , surnamed Chatillon , flourished in the 13th century . He is the author of a poem in ten books , called the Alexandriad ; and the verse in question is the ...
... remarked by Galeotus Martius and Paquier in their Researches . This Gualtier , surnamed Chatillon , flourished in the 13th century . He is the author of a poem in ten books , called the Alexandriad ; and the verse in question is the ...
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... remarking to M. de Sercy , the bookseller , who showed him that romance , " This author boasts of having a large mansion and an extensive forest : I assure you , on my honour , that he has not wood enough to make a tooth - pick , and ...
... remarking to M. de Sercy , the bookseller , who showed him that romance , " This author boasts of having a large mansion and an extensive forest : I assure you , on my honour , that he has not wood enough to make a tooth - pick , and ...
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... remarked , " This is one of your breeding authors ; he is de- ivered of a book every month . " CXXX . IMPRISONED AUTHORS . Numerous examples prove , that confinement is not injurious to study . It was in prison that Boe- thius composed ...
... remarked , " This is one of your breeding authors ; he is de- ivered of a book every month . " CXXX . IMPRISONED AUTHORS . Numerous examples prove , that confinement is not injurious to study . It was in prison that Boe- thius composed ...
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... remarked , as a singu- lar fact , that during the massacre of St Bartholo- mew , although all the Calvinists who were attach- ed to their religion , and known to be so , were marked out as victims , there was not a physician on the list ...
... remarked , as a singu- lar fact , that during the massacre of St Bartholo- mew , although all the Calvinists who were attach- ed to their religion , and known to be so , were marked out as victims , there was not a physician on the list ...
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