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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... nately , the best articles in that collection are so strongly tinctured with coarseness or ob- scenity , that few specimens of it can be ex- hibited in translation .. In Germany again , the Loci Communes of Melancthon and viii PREFACE .
... nately , the best articles in that collection are so strongly tinctured with coarseness or ob- scenity , that few specimens of it can be ex- hibited in translation .. In Germany again , the Loci Communes of Melancthon and viii PREFACE .
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... translation from the works of Dablancourt or Portroyal , and those of bad translation from the writings of Marolles , who , in truth , thought rather of making many volumes than good 20 TABLE - TALK .
... translation from the works of Dablancourt or Portroyal , and those of bad translation from the writings of Marolles , who , in truth , thought rather of making many volumes than good 20 TABLE - TALK .
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... translated it into Latin , * and passed off the work as his own ; but afterwards , other copies of the work of Proco ... translation . He made considerable changes on the work of Procopius . The story of Machiavel is also a mistake . The ...
... translated it into Latin , * and passed off the work as his own ; but afterwards , other copies of the work of Proco ... translation . He made considerable changes on the work of Procopius . The story of Machiavel is also a mistake . The ...
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... translation would do him but little credit , and at the same time an- xious to avoid the clumsy and inartificial imposture of Aretin , he adopted a more refined , but scarcely more conscientious expedient . He wrote a Life of Castruccio ...
... translation would do him but little credit , and at the same time an- xious to avoid the clumsy and inartificial imposture of Aretin , he adopted a more refined , but scarcely more conscientious expedient . He wrote a Life of Castruccio ...
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... translation , assured him the ambassadors had said nothing of the kind . The enraged ambassador replied , " Did they not ? — Well , if they did not , they ought to have done so . " XXXVIII . SERVANTS . 3 In France , servants always walk ...
... translation , assured him the ambassadors had said nothing of the kind . The enraged ambassador replied , " Did they not ? — Well , if they did not , they ought to have done so . " XXXVIII . SERVANTS . 3 In France , servants always walk ...
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