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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... returned on that account . She was just preparing to address him , when a stranger entered and saluted her with much gravity . Mademoiselle de Gournai could not help asking him several times over , whether or not he was really Racan ...
... returned on that account . She was just preparing to address him , when a stranger entered and saluted her with much gravity . Mademoiselle de Gournai could not help asking him several times over , whether or not he was really Racan ...
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... RETURNING THANKS . Nothing is more difficult than to return thanks neatly . XXXIII . JULIUS CÆSAR . John of Salisbury , Polydore Virgil , and Lipsius , believed that Julius Cæsar was not the author of the Commentaries which bear his ...
... RETURNING THANKS . Nothing is more difficult than to return thanks neatly . XXXIII . JULIUS CÆSAR . John of Salisbury , Polydore Virgil , and Lipsius , believed that Julius Cæsar was not the author of the Commentaries which bear his ...
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... returning , all is lost , the sailors are swearing like demoniacs ; their very blasphemies are enough to sink the vessel . " . " Oh ! heaven be praised , " said the Jesuit , " then all's right . " XLVIII . PROOF POSITIVE . M. de having ...
... returning , all is lost , the sailors are swearing like demoniacs ; their very blasphemies are enough to sink the vessel . " . " Oh ! heaven be praised , " said the Jesuit , " then all's right . " XLVIII . PROOF POSITIVE . M. de having ...
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... returned and married him immediately . Some time afterwards , however , he drubbed her heartily , and she found , that , instead of being mistress , she had really become the servant . She returned to the Curé , and cursed the moment ...
... returned and married him immediately . Some time afterwards , however , he drubbed her heartily , and she found , that , instead of being mistress , she had really become the servant . She returned to the Curé , and cursed the moment ...
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... returning to France , pub- lished a variety of works , which raised him to a distinguish- ed place in the republic of letters . He was appointed in 1678 to the Abbacy of Aunay , in Normandy ; and in 1685 , to the See of Soissons , which ...
... returning to France , pub- lished a variety of works , which raised him to a distinguish- ed place in the republic of letters . He was appointed in 1678 to the Abbacy of Aunay , in Normandy ; and in 1685 , to the See of Soissons , which ...
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