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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... mind enabled him to tri- umph over all obstacles , and by the assistance of his tutor , Mambrun , a Jesuit , and of Bochart , the Protestant Minister of Caen , he obtained a complete acquaintance with mathe- matics , and became a most ...
... mind enabled him to tri- umph over all obstacles , and by the assistance of his tutor , Mambrun , a Jesuit , and of Bochart , the Protestant Minister of Caen , he obtained a complete acquaintance with mathe- matics , and became a most ...
Page 49
... mind . LXXXII . VAMPYRES . There is something evidently singular in the accounts we possess of the Brucolacs * of the * Phlegon de Mirabil . c . 1. Turquie Chretien ; de la Croix , liv . 1 , c . 25 , pp . 116 , et seq .; ex Leone ...
... mind . LXXXII . VAMPYRES . There is something evidently singular in the accounts we possess of the Brucolacs * of the * Phlegon de Mirabil . c . 1. Turquie Chretien ; de la Croix , liv . 1 , c . 25 , pp . 116 , et seq .; ex Leone ...
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... mind of an anecdote of Ismael Bouillan , who had been sent by his father to Paris to study . In the account of his expenditure , which his father demanded of him , in order to see how he employ- ed the money he had given him , the young ...
... mind of an anecdote of Ismael Bouillan , who had been sent by his father to Paris to study . In the account of his expenditure , which his father demanded of him , in order to see how he employ- ed the money he had given him , the young ...
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... mind of an anecdote of Ismael Bouillan , who had been sent by his father to Paris to study . In the account of his expenditure , which his father demanded of him , in order to see how he employ- ed the money he had given him , the young ...
... mind of an anecdote of Ismael Bouillan , who had been sent by his father to Paris to study . In the account of his expenditure , which his father demanded of him , in order to see how he employ- ed the money he had given him , the young ...
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... mind , by composing ver- ses when on the point of death . The Emperor Adrian , before expiring , as everybody knows , com- posed the celebrated epigram , " Animula Vagula Blandula . " Salmasius , attacked by a mortal dis- ease , while ...
... mind , by composing ver- ses when on the point of death . The Emperor Adrian , before expiring , as everybody knows , com- posed the celebrated epigram , " Animula Vagula Blandula . " Salmasius , attacked by a mortal dis- ease , while ...
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