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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... means the earliest works of the kind . Many of the novels of Boccaccio are merely repartees and remarks attributed to celebra- ted persons , in the style of the Poggiana , and the collection attributed to Æneas Syl- vius Piccolomini ...
... means the earliest works of the kind . Many of the novels of Boccaccio are merely repartees and remarks attributed to celebra- ted persons , in the style of the Poggiana , and the collection attributed to Æneas Syl- vius Piccolomini ...
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... means of gaining credit in the world , and acquiring reputation . With this view , he first contemplated publishing it as his own work ; but , apprehensive that this imposture would in time be discovered , he wrote a Treatise , De ...
... means of gaining credit in the world , and acquiring reputation . With this view , he first contemplated publishing it as his own work ; but , apprehensive that this imposture would in time be discovered , he wrote a Treatise , De ...
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... mean ? " " By my faith , " replied the litigant , " they can mean nothing but Pauvre Plaideur , prenez patience . " + * The original article in the Menagiana is full of errors , particularly in the dates . The opinion expressed by Me ...
... mean ? " " By my faith , " replied the litigant , " they can mean nothing but Pauvre Plaideur , prenez patience . " + * The original article in the Menagiana is full of errors , particularly in the dates . The opinion expressed by Me ...
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... means to collect the remainder ; and to prevent these from sharing the fate of the rest , he had them bound in eighty volumes . This collec- tion consists of original letters of the Emperors Charles V. , Ferdinand I. , Maximilian II ...
... means to collect the remainder ; and to prevent these from sharing the fate of the rest , he had them bound in eighty volumes . This collec- tion consists of original letters of the Emperors Charles V. , Ferdinand I. , Maximilian II ...
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... means CC a Drum . " LXXXIII . LETTER READING . I never read my letters in the evening before going to bed , or in the afternoon before dinner . Let- ters generally contain more bad news than good ; and in reading them , we call up ...
... means CC a Drum . " LXXXIII . LETTER READING . I never read my letters in the evening before going to bed , or in the afternoon before dinner . Let- ters generally contain more bad news than good ; and in reading them , we call up ...
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