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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... allowed it to remain for a long time with the painter , before he sent for it . Legoux said to him one day , " Sir , I think you had better send for your portrait , for the landlord of the Moor's Head has been applying for it . " VIII ...
... allowed it to remain for a long time with the painter , before he sent for it . Legoux said to him one day , " Sir , I think you had better send for your portrait , for the landlord of the Moor's Head has been applying for it . " VIII ...
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... allowed his six hundred ; “ And I , ” said one , 66 I go far beyond either of you , for I al- low mine four thousand francs per annum . " At first the whole party were astonished at this exorbitant allowance . At last one of them ...
... allowed his six hundred ; “ And I , ” said one , 66 I go far beyond either of you , for I al- low mine four thousand francs per annum . " At first the whole party were astonished at this exorbitant allowance . At last one of them ...
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... allowed to choose our birth - place , Italy should be our choice , on account of the mild- ness of the climate . After being born there , we must come to France to live , for there alone is the science of good eating fully understood ...
... allowed to choose our birth - place , Italy should be our choice , on account of the mild- ness of the climate . After being born there , we must come to France to live , for there alone is the science of good eating fully understood ...
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... allowed the use of their library , might have carried off the manuscript , particularly as in his two Dialogues , De Exilio , some passages appeared which were obviously above his powers . XXXV . PROCOPIUS AND QUINCTILIAN . Leonard ...
... allowed the use of their library , might have carried off the manuscript , particularly as in his two Dialogues , De Exilio , some passages appeared which were obviously above his powers . XXXV . PROCOPIUS AND QUINCTILIAN . Leonard ...
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... 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 , " for a ...
... 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 , " for a ...
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