Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... never raged more violently than in the present day . It is fortunate that literature is in no ways injured by the follies of collectors , since though they preserve the worthless , they necessarily defend the good . Some collectors ...
... never raged more violently than in the present day . It is fortunate that literature is in no ways injured by the follies of collectors , since though they preserve the worthless , they necessarily defend the good . Some collectors ...
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... never resolved it : When a hog is carried to market with a rope tied about its neck , which is held at the other end by a man , whether is the hog carried to market by the rope or the man ? ' In the tenth century ( says Jortin in his ...
... never resolved it : When a hog is carried to market with a rope tied about its neck , which is held at the other end by a man , whether is the hog carried to market by the rope or the man ? ' In the tenth century ( says Jortin in his ...
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... never again imitate the Koran , for which he was sensible God had never created him . CICERO'S PUNS . ' I should , ' says Menage , ' have received great pleasure to have conversed with Cicero , had I lived in his time . He must have ...
... never again imitate the Koran , for which he was sensible God had never created him . CICERO'S PUNS . ' I should , ' says Menage , ' have received great pleasure to have conversed with Cicero , had I lived in his time . He must have ...
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... never yet equalled in so small a work . To combat this double ma- chination of Satan he was obliged carefully to reperuse the work , and to form this singular list of the blunders of print- ers under the influence of the Devil . All ...
... never yet equalled in so small a work . To combat this double ma- chination of Satan he was obliged carefully to reperuse the work , and to form this singular list of the blunders of print- ers under the influence of the Devil . All ...
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... never existed ! The Catholics confess this sort of blunder is not uncommon , but then it is only fools who laugh ! As a specimen of the hap- pier inventions , one is given , embellished by the dictions of Gibbon- ' Among the insipid ...
... never existed ! The Catholics confess this sort of blunder is not uncommon , but then it is only fools who laugh ! As a specimen of the hap- pier inventions , one is given , embellished by the dictions of Gibbon- ' Among the insipid ...
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