Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... carried to Rome he appears to have been the founder V of the first Roman public library . After the taking of Carthage , the Roman senate rewarded the family of Re- gulus with the books found in that city . A library was a national gift ...
... carried to Rome he appears to have been the founder V of the first Roman public library . After the taking of Carthage , the Roman senate rewarded the family of Re- gulus with the books found in that city . A library was a national gift ...
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... carried about on any pretence whatever . The history of the tri - Bibliotheque du Roi ' is a curious incident in literature ; and the progress of the human mind and public opinion might be traced by its gradual accessions , noting the ...
... carried about on any pretence whatever . The history of the tri - Bibliotheque du Roi ' is a curious incident in literature ; and the progress of the human mind and public opinion might be traced by its gradual accessions , noting the ...
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... carried to a vast extent . An index to the Journal des Sçavans has been arranged on a critical plan , occupying ten ... carrying on this review without an associate , he has shown its folly and its danger ; for a fatal illness produced a ...
... carried to a vast extent . An index to the Journal des Sçavans has been arranged on a critical plan , occupying ten ... carrying on this review without an associate , he has shown its folly and its danger ; for a fatal illness produced a ...
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... carried him away in chains . Now a slave , after his daily labours he amused a great part of his nights by literary compositions ; ' De Tintinnabulis , ' on Bells , a treatise still read by the curious , was actually composed by him ...
... carried him away in chains . Now a slave , after his daily labours he amused a great part of his nights by literary compositions ; ' De Tintinnabulis , ' on Bells , a treatise still read by the curious , was actually composed by him ...
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... carried on against com- mon sense in all the Aristotelian severity . There existed a rage for Aristotle ; and Melancthon complains that in sa- cred assemblies the ethics of Aristotle were read to the people instead of the gospel ...
... carried on against com- mon sense in all the Aristotelian severity . There existed a rage for Aristotle ; and Melancthon complains that in sa- cred assemblies the ethics of Aristotle were read to the people instead of the gospel ...
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