Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... appear to have been attended to ! Many of these admirable inventions were lost . The steam en- gine and the telegraph may be traced among them . It appears by the Harleian Mss , 1524 , that Rushworth , the author of Historical ...
... appear to have been attended to ! Many of these admirable inventions were lost . The steam en- gine and the telegraph may be traced among them . It appears by the Harleian Mss , 1524 , that Rushworth , the author of Historical ...
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... appears that his Natural History , that vast register of the wisdom and folly of the ancients , was not his most ex- traordinary labour . Among his other works we find a history in twenty books , which has entirely perished . Wo ...
... appears that his Natural History , that vast register of the wisdom and folly of the ancients , was not his most ex- traordinary labour . Among his other works we find a history in twenty books , which has entirely perished . Wo ...
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... appears to me very tedi- ous ; for his preface , definitions , divisions , and etymolo- gies , take up the greatest part of his work whatever there is of life and marrow , is smothered and lost in the prepara- tion . When I have spent ...
... appears to me very tedi- ous ; for his preface , definitions , divisions , and etymolo- gies , take up the greatest part of his work whatever there is of life and marrow , is smothered and lost in the prepara- tion . When I have spent ...
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... appears that the Talmud was compiled by certain Jewish doctors , who were solicited for this purpose by their nation , that they might have something to oppose to their Christian adversaries . The learned W. Wotton , in his curious ...
... appears that the Talmud was compiled by certain Jewish doctors , who were solicited for this purpose by their nation , that they might have something to oppose to their Christian adversaries . The learned W. Wotton , in his curious ...
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... appears by a letter of Peter de Cluny to Eloisa , that she had solicited for Abelard's absolution . The abbot gave it to her . It runs thus : Ego Petrus Cluniacensis Abbas , qui Petrum Abælardum in monachum Cluniacen- sum recepi , et ...
... appears by a letter of Peter de Cluny to Eloisa , that she had solicited for Abelard's absolution . The abbot gave it to her . It runs thus : Ego Petrus Cluniacensis Abbas , qui Petrum Abælardum in monachum Cluniacen- sum recepi , et ...
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