Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... singular curiosity for a trifle , and recovered in this manner what had long been given over for lost ! This anecdote is told by Colomiés , who long re- -sided , and died in this country . An original Magna Char- ta is preserved in the ...
... singular curiosity for a trifle , and recovered in this manner what had long been given over for lost ! This anecdote is told by Colomiés , who long re- -sided , and died in this country . An original Magna Char- ta is preserved in the ...
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... singular people . He acquired the skill of a mandarine in that difficult language ; nor did the form of his Dutch face undeceive the physiognomists of China . He succeeded to the dignity of a mandarine ; he travelled through the ...
... singular people . He acquired the skill of a mandarine in that difficult language ; nor did the form of his Dutch face undeceive the physiognomists of China . He succeeded to the dignity of a mandarine ; he travelled through the ...
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... singular list of the blunders of print- ers under the influence of the Devil . All this he relates in an advertisement prefixed to the Errata . A furious controversy raged between two famous scho- lars from a very laughable but ...
... singular list of the blunders of print- ers under the influence of the Devil . All this he relates in an advertisement prefixed to the Errata . A furious controversy raged between two famous scho- lars from a very laughable but ...
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... singular annual subject which the academy of Dijon proposed for that year , in which he wrote his celebrated Declamation against the arts and sciences . A circumstance which determined his future literary efforts . La Fontaine , at the ...
... singular annual subject which the academy of Dijon proposed for that year , in which he wrote his celebrated Declamation against the arts and sciences . A circumstance which determined his future literary efforts . La Fontaine , at the ...
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... singular dress and obsolete language confounded the baker , to whom he offered an ancient medal of Decius as the current coin of the empire ; and Jamblichus , on the sus- picion of a secret treasure , was dragged before the judge ...
... singular dress and obsolete language confounded the baker , to whom he offered an ancient medal of Decius as the current coin of the empire ; and Jamblichus , on the sus- picion of a secret treasure , was dragged before the judge ...
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