Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... interest to turn aside the public mind from political speculations , and to afford their subjects the inexhaustible occupations of curiosity , and the consoling pleasures of the imagination . Thus Pisistratus is said to have been among ...
... interest to turn aside the public mind from political speculations , and to afford their subjects the inexhaustible occupations of curiosity , and the consoling pleasures of the imagination . Thus Pisistratus is said to have been among ...
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... interest among the lovers of literature . These publications are the chronicles of taste and science , and present the existing state of the idle hours , which men of letters do not choose to pass idly . public mind , while they form a ...
... interest among the lovers of literature . These publications are the chronicles of taste and science , and present the existing state of the idle hours , which men of letters do not choose to pass idly . public mind , while they form a ...
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... interest in the labours of the critic . Yet even Bayle , who declared himself a reporter and not a judge , Bayle the discreet sceptic , could not long satisfy his To describe the character of a perfect journalist , would readers . His ...
... interest in the labours of the critic . Yet even Bayle , who declared himself a reporter and not a judge , Bayle the discreet sceptic , could not long satisfy his To describe the character of a perfect journalist , would readers . His ...
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... interest that he was often seized with immoderate fits of laughter . A continuity of labour deadens the soul , observes Seneca , in closing his treatise on The Tranquillity of the soul , ' and the mind must unbend itself by certain ...
... interest that he was often seized with immoderate fits of laughter . A continuity of labour deadens the soul , observes Seneca , in closing his treatise on The Tranquillity of the soul , ' and the mind must unbend itself by certain ...
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... interest to conceal this discovery , and to pass off his printed copies for Mss . But as he was enabled to sell his bibles at sixty crowns , while the other scribes demanded five hundred , this raised universal astonishment ; and still ...
... interest to conceal this discovery , and to pass off his printed copies for Mss . But as he was enabled to sell his bibles at sixty crowns , while the other scribes demanded five hundred , this raised universal astonishment ; and still ...
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