Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... amuse- ments cannot be told without adding to the dignity of his character , ' observes Mr Prince Hoare , in the very curious life of this great philanthropist . Some have found amusement in composing treatises on odd subjects . Seneca ...
... amuse- ments cannot be told without adding to the dignity of his character , ' observes Mr Prince Hoare , in the very curious life of this great philanthropist . Some have found amusement in composing treatises on odd subjects . Seneca ...
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... amuse- ments you choose , return not slowly from those of the body to the mind ; exercise the latter night and day . The mind is nourished at the cheap rate ; neither cold nor heat , nor age itself can interrupt this exercise ; give ...
... amuse- ments you choose , return not slowly from those of the body to the mind ; exercise the latter night and day . The mind is nourished at the cheap rate ; neither cold nor heat , nor age itself can interrupt this exercise ; give ...
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... amuse- ments of children . The painter does not always give a correct likeness , or the engraver misses it in his copy . The faithful Vertue refused to engrave for Houbraken's set , because they did not authenticate their originals ...
... amuse- ments of children . The painter does not always give a correct likeness , or the engraver misses it in his copy . The faithful Vertue refused to engrave for Houbraken's set , because they did not authenticate their originals ...
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... amuse myself , I constantly take up this agree able author ; and as often as I do so , he is still new . ' He had before compared this poet to Catullus ; and in a critic of so fine a taste as Pliny , to have cherished so constant an ...
... amuse myself , I constantly take up this agree able author ; and as often as I do so , he is still new . ' He had before compared this poet to Catullus ; and in a critic of so fine a taste as Pliny , to have cherished so constant an ...
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... amuse myself in contemplating their anxious mo- tions , I receive the same pleasure which you do in observ- ing those men who cultivate your land ; for 1 reflect that the end of all their labours is to embellish the city which I inhabit ...
... amuse myself in contemplating their anxious mo- tions , I receive the same pleasure which you do in observ- ing those men who cultivate your land ; for 1 reflect that the end of all their labours is to embellish the city which I inhabit ...
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