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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... nature , and amount to two volumes , are not the least valuable part of the work , particularly from the corrections which they contain of oc- casional errors , into which Menage , who perhaps trusted a little too much to his prodigious ...
... nature , and amount to two volumes , are not the least valuable part of the work , particularly from the corrections which they contain of oc- casional errors , into which Menage , who perhaps trusted a little too much to his prodigious ...
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... nature . He found a Greek manuscript of Procopius , De Bello Gothico . He translated it into Latin , and passed off the work as his own ; but afterwards , other copies of the work of Proco- pius were found , and the imposture of Aretin ...
... nature . He found a Greek manuscript of Procopius , De Bello Gothico . He translated it into Latin , and passed off the work as his own ; but afterwards , other copies of the work of Proco- pius were found , and the imposture of Aretin ...
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... nature . He found a Greek manuscript of Procopius , De Bello Gothico . He translated it into Latin , and passed off the work as his own ; but afterwards , other copies of the work of Proco- pius were found , and the imposture of Aretin ...
... nature . He found a Greek manuscript of Procopius , De Bello Gothico . He translated it into Latin , and passed off the work as his own ; but afterwards , other copies of the work of Proco- pius were found , and the imposture of Aretin ...
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... nature either kills or cures him . LXV . MARCO DE LODI . Marco de Lodi , having presented a sonnet of his own composition to Clement VII . , the Pope found one of the lines in the first quatrain defi- cient in a syllable . " Do not let ...
... nature either kills or cures him . LXV . MARCO DE LODI . Marco de Lodi , having presented a sonnet of his own composition to Clement VII . , the Pope found one of the lines in the first quatrain defi- cient in a syllable . " Do not let ...
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... nature has furnished man , as an instrument always ready to assist him in his calculations , which has led to the adoption of this number - a number , in other respects less useful , and less fitted for the purpose , than the number of ...
... nature has furnished man , as an instrument always ready to assist him in his calculations , which has led to the adoption of this number - a number , in other respects less useful , and less fitted for the purpose , than the number of ...
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