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... faid faid to have brought with him into the country almost 5 108 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS mean and fordid, as well as too weak and ...
... faid faid to have brought with him into the country almost 5 108 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS mean and fordid, as well as too weak and ...
Page 185
... faid to have introduced into France , the Arabian and Indian cy- pher : for the Arabians had borrowed from the Indians this manner of computing , and Gerbert learned it from the Saracens , when he made a journey into Spain . Gerbert ...
... faid to have introduced into France , the Arabian and Indian cy- pher : for the Arabians had borrowed from the Indians this manner of computing , and Gerbert learned it from the Saracens , when he made a journey into Spain . Gerbert ...
Page 309
... faid , " One would have thought the Baron de Montefquieu had been born and bred a Turk , he has de- feribed that people , and the women particularly , fo very ac- curately . " — " I had rather have written , faid a man of wit ; the ...
... faid , " One would have thought the Baron de Montefquieu had been born and bred a Turk , he has de- feribed that people , and the women particularly , fo very ac- curately . " — " I had rather have written , faid a man of wit ; the ...
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