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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... manner , that , the one remaining above the other , only one ace was visible , and thus carried off the prize . LXXV . PHYSICIANS . Physicians were formerly ecclesiastics . It was only in 1452 that the Cardinal d'Etouteville , du ring ...
... manner , that , the one remaining above the other , only one ace was visible , and thus carried off the prize . LXXV . PHYSICIANS . Physicians were formerly ecclesiastics . It was only in 1452 that the Cardinal d'Etouteville , du ring ...
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... manner in which I shall receive it , will procure from God the pardon of my crime . " He went to the scaffold singing , and suffered with a firmness and serenity that astonished every one who was present . XC . CONTAGION . Neither ...
... manner in which I shall receive it , will procure from God the pardon of my crime . " He went to the scaffold singing , and suffered with a firmness and serenity that astonished every one who was present . XC . CONTAGION . Neither ...
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... manner as he had treated his Excellen- cy's horses ; that , it was true , a good many of them died , in consequence of his remedies , but that he had also had the good fortune to effect some cures . He concluded with begging his Grace ...
... manner as he had treated his Excellen- cy's horses ; that , it was true , a good many of them died , in consequence of his remedies , but that he had also had the good fortune to effect some cures . He concluded with begging his Grace ...
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... manner , that he carried it to a greater extent than Lucan him- self , as is evident from the translation of that poem which he has left us in French verse . CXXVII . LATE INSTRUCTION . Socrates , in his old G 2 [ L 77 7 MARVILLIANA ...
... manner , that he carried it to a greater extent than Lucan him- self , as is evident from the translation of that poem which he has left us in French verse . CXXVII . LATE INSTRUCTION . Socrates , in his old G 2 [ L 77 7 MARVILLIANA ...
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... manner of his death known — whether he died by bleeding , like Seneca , or was suffocated between two mattresses , or strangled by the executioner . After his death , a collection of his extravagancies was made in Spa- nish . He ...
... manner of his death known — whether he died by bleeding , like Seneca , or was suffocated between two mattresses , or strangled by the executioner . After his death , a collection of his extravagancies was made in Spa- nish . He ...
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