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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... fire and eloquence , but deficient in solidity and arrange- ment . One of her friends , who felt an interest in the preacher , asked her , as she came out of church , * A similar story is related of Quevedo , by his biogra- pher , Don ...
... fire and eloquence , but deficient in solidity and arrange- ment . One of her friends , who felt an interest in the preacher , asked her , as she came out of church , * A similar story is related of Quevedo , by his biogra- pher , Don ...
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... fire ; thus depriving the republic of letters , by this odious action , of a work , where there is every reason to conclude that Cicero was not less eloquent or admirable than in his other productions . Raimond Soranzo , a celebrated ...
... fire ; thus depriving the republic of letters , by this odious action , of a work , where there is every reason to conclude that Cicero was not less eloquent or admirable than in his other productions . Raimond Soranzo , a celebrated ...
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... fire to his house , and it was with difficulty that he escaped with his life . Then recollecting the answer of the Oracle , he perceived , when too late , that the word was not Domine , but Domi ne stes securus . LIII . HENRY IV . Henry ...
... fire to his house , and it was with difficulty that he escaped with his life . Then recollecting the answer of the Oracle , he perceived , when too late , that the word was not Domine , but Domi ne stes securus . LIII . HENRY IV . Henry ...
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... fires have been suc- cessfully employed in different places to purify the air . This is done , not by rarefying and changing its ... fire , are drawn to death like moths round a candlo . Another cause , totally the reverse HUETIANA . 59.
... fires have been suc- cessfully employed in different places to purify the air . This is done , not by rarefying and changing its ... fire , are drawn to death like moths round a candlo . Another cause , totally the reverse HUETIANA . 59.
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... fire , they soon begin to exhibit signs of life : they stretch themselves out , shake themselves , and soon fly away . In other places they retire into the caves , or under the rocks . Between the town of Caen and the sea , along the ...
... fire , they soon begin to exhibit signs of life : they stretch themselves out , shake themselves , and soon fly away . In other places they retire into the caves , or under the rocks . Between the town of Caen and the sea , along the ...
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