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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... give you immortality ; but you must give him something to live upon in the meantime . " XIV . THE CURATE OF ANJOU . A curate in Anjou , a man of very disorderly habits , had a quarrel with a sergeant of the neigh- bourhood . The ...
... give you immortality ; but you must give him something to live upon in the meantime . " XIV . THE CURATE OF ANJOU . A curate in Anjou , a man of very disorderly habits , had a quarrel with a sergeant of the neigh- bourhood . The ...
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... gives the story at length in his First Epistle , Book XV . , Rerum Senilium , notwithstanding all his in- quiries , never could recover the books . If we may believe Paulus Manucius , in his Commentary on the Twenty - Seventh Epistle of ...
... gives the story at length in his First Epistle , Book XV . , Rerum Senilium , notwithstanding all his in- quiries , never could recover the books . If we may believe Paulus Manucius , in his Commentary on the Twenty - Seventh Epistle of ...
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... Bergerac used to say of Mondori , " The fellow gives himself airs , forsooth , because he is so tall and stout , that one can hardly beat him from head to foot in a day . " XL . CIPHERS . The Arabian numerals , 1 , 30 TABLE - TALK .
... Bergerac used to say of Mondori , " The fellow gives himself airs , forsooth , because he is so tall and stout , that one can hardly beat him from head to foot in a day . " XL . CIPHERS . The Arabian numerals , 1 , 30 TABLE - TALK .
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... give it as a good one , but as mine ; " a matter with which the reader has very little to do ; for his object is to know , not what Michael de Montaigne thought , but what he should have thought , in order to think well . He declares ...
... give it as a good one , but as mine ; " a matter with which the reader has very little to do ; for his object is to know , not what Michael de Montaigne thought , but what he should have thought , in order to think well . He declares ...
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... give no good account , and therefore added at the close of the account , " Item , father , one must live . " CV . LA MOTHE LE VAYER . The friends of La Mothe le Vayer , who are ac- quainted with his character , are aware that ac- counts ...
... give no good account , and therefore added at the close of the account , " Item , father , one must live . " CV . LA MOTHE LE VAYER . The friends of La Mothe le Vayer , who are ac- quainted with his character , are aware that ac- counts ...
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