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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... seen . One of these gentlemen anticipating , by an hour or two , the period of the intended visit , ordered the servant to announce M. Racan . He was received with transport . He talked for a long time of Ma- demoiselle Gournai's works ...
... seen . One of these gentlemen anticipating , by an hour or two , the period of the intended visit , ordered the servant to announce M. Racan . He was received with transport . He talked for a long time of Ma- demoiselle Gournai's works ...
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... seen . * The gover- nor of the late Marquis de Ronville , playing at rackets near Saumur , happened to read what was written on the parchment of his rackets , and per- ceived that it was a part of the Second Decade of Livy . He ...
... seen . * The gover- nor of the late Marquis de Ronville , playing at rackets near Saumur , happened to read what was written on the parchment of his rackets , and per- ceived that it was a part of the Second Decade of Livy . He ...
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... which Poggio certainly had not seen , for they were not collected till after the year Gloomy care sits behind the rider . + Imitated in the well - known tale of Prior . 1461 , under the reign of Louis XI . , 34 TABLE - TALK .
... which Poggio certainly had not seen , for they were not collected till after the year Gloomy care sits behind the rider . + Imitated in the well - known tale of Prior . 1461 , under the reign of Louis XI . , 34 TABLE - TALK .
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... seen from our short selection , are singular enough , and some of his theories not a little visionary ; but the book , notwithstand- ing D'Alembert's criticisms , is in general distinguished by the good sense of the articles it contains ...
... seen from our short selection , are singular enough , and some of his theories not a little visionary ; but the book , notwithstand- ing D'Alembert's criticisms , is in general distinguished by the good sense of the articles it contains ...
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... seen by Æneas in the Infernal Regions . ( Virg . Æn . VI . 494 , et . seq . ) The ancients have treated as a fable the history of Hermotimus of Clazomene , whose soul fre- quently forsook his body to wander through dis- tant regions ...
... seen by Æneas in the Infernal Regions . ( Virg . Æn . VI . 494 , et . seq . ) The ancients have treated as a fable the history of Hermotimus of Clazomene , whose soul fre- quently forsook his body to wander through dis- tant regions ...
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