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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Page 50
... devil , who preserves and animates them , and employs them to torment mankind . Father Richard , ✶ a Jesuit Missionary to these islands , about fifty years ago , published an account of the Island of Santerini , or St Irene , the Thera ...
... devil , who preserves and animates them , and employs them to torment mankind . Father Richard , ✶ a Jesuit Missionary to these islands , about fifty years ago , published an account of the Island of Santerini , or St Irene , the Thera ...
Page 94
... devil . CLII . ERASMUS ' COLLOQUIES . Simon Colinet , a bookseller in Paris , in printing the Colloquies of Erasmus , threw off an impression of 80,000 copies . This number appears surpri- sing ; but we must recollect , that books were ...
... devil . CLII . ERASMUS ' COLLOQUIES . Simon Colinet , a bookseller in Paris , in printing the Colloquies of Erasmus , threw off an impression of 80,000 copies . This number appears surpri- sing ; but we must recollect , that books were ...
Page 113
... DEVIL . The Spaniards , who disliked Sixtus V. , circu- lated a report that he had sold himself to the De- vil , on ... Devil appeared , and told him he came to carry him off . Sixtus told him his time was not come , as only five years ...
... DEVIL . The Spaniards , who disliked Sixtus V. , circu- lated a report that he had sold himself to the De- vil , on ... Devil appeared , and told him he came to carry him off . Sixtus told him his time was not come , as only five years ...
Page 129
... Devil . The Jesuit , who saw that the theme was composed in the most elegant Latin , and that the student told the ... Devil ! the Devil ! " Santeuil , perceiving that he was detect- SERIOUS AND COMIC ANA . 129.
... Devil . The Jesuit , who saw that the theme was composed in the most elegant Latin , and that the student told the ... Devil ! the Devil ! " Santeuil , perceiving that he was detect- SERIOUS AND COMIC ANA . 129.
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... Devil ! " Santeuil , perceiving that he was detect- ed , related the story , to the infinite amusement of the audience , who found this explanation much more interesting than the former subject of discus- sion . CCXL . THE CONJURER . A ...
... Devil ! " Santeuil , perceiving that he was detect- ed , related the story , to the infinite amusement of the audience , who found this explanation much more interesting than the former subject of discus- sion . CCXL . THE CONJURER . A ...
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