Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... anecdotes seem most in- teresting , as they mark either the affection , or the venera- tion , which civilized men have ever felt for these perennial repositories of their minds . The first national library founded in Egypt seemed to ...
... anecdotes seem most in- teresting , as they mark either the affection , or the venera- tion , which civilized men have ever felt for these perennial repositories of their minds . The first national library founded in Egypt seemed to ...
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... anecdote . To read the classics was considered as a very idle recreation , and some held them in great horror . To distinguish them from other books , they invented a disgracefu ! sign ; when a monk asked for a pagan author , after ...
... anecdote . To read the classics was considered as a very idle recreation , and some held them in great horror . To distinguish them from other books , they invented a disgracefu ! sign ; when a monk asked for a pagan author , after ...
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... anecdotes concerning manuscripts . Sir Robert Cotton one day at his tailor's , discovered that the man was hold- ing in his ... anecdote is told by Colomiés , who long re- -sided , and died in this country . An original Magna Char- ta is ...
... anecdotes concerning manuscripts . Sir Robert Cotton one day at his tailor's , discovered that the man was hold- ing in his ... anecdote is told by Colomiés , who long re- -sided , and died in this country . An original Magna Char- ta is ...
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... anecdote is record- ed of the Grecian libraries ; one at Gnidus was burnt by the sect of Hippocrates , because the Gnidians refused to follow the doctrines of their master . If the followers of Hippocrates formed the majority , was it ...
... anecdote is record- ed of the Grecian libraries ; one at Gnidus was burnt by the sect of Hippocrates , because the Gnidians refused to follow the doctrines of their master . If the followers of Hippocrates formed the majority , was it ...
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... anecdote respecting a Spanish missal , cal- led St Isidore's , is not incurious ; hard fighting saved it from destruction . In the Moorish wars , all these missals had been destroyed excepting those in the city of Toledo . There in six ...
... anecdote respecting a Spanish missal , cal- led St Isidore's , is not incurious ; hard fighting saved it from destruction . In the Moorish wars , all these missals had been destroyed excepting those in the city of Toledo . There in six ...
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