The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen139A. Constable, 1874 |
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... known by the writers themselves . Thus Aulus Gellius , Seneca , Josephus , Eusebius , and others , tell us many seemingly precise particulars about the famous library of Alex- andria ; Plutarch is tolerably minute as to the collection ...
... known by the writers themselves . Thus Aulus Gellius , Seneca , Josephus , Eusebius , and others , tell us many seemingly precise particulars about the famous library of Alex- andria ; Plutarch is tolerably minute as to the collection ...
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... known to have existed in Rome during their time , and to which they themselves not unfrequently refer by name . Aulus Gellius , for instance , speaks of meeting friends in the Tiberian Library , * of making researches in the library of ...
... known to have existed in Rome during their time , and to which they themselves not unfrequently refer by name . Aulus Gellius , for instance , speaks of meeting friends in the Tiberian Library , * of making researches in the library of ...
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... known rival , are said to have reached the incredible total of more than 700 volumes ! It is curious - we dare not say significant that of the numerous works of these singularly prolific writers hardly anything has come down to our day ...
... known rival , are said to have reached the incredible total of more than 700 volumes ! It is curious - we dare not say significant that of the numerous works of these singularly prolific writers hardly anything has come down to our day ...
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... known Bibliotheca , would go far to prove that , down to the ninth century , the library of Constanti- nople contained numberless treasures of ancient learning which have disappeared in the general wreck of the Christian empire of ...
... known Bibliotheca , would go far to prove that , down to the ninth century , the library of Constanti- nople contained numberless treasures of ancient learning which have disappeared in the general wreck of the Christian empire of ...
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... known as Richard of Bury , the first recorded donor of books to the University of Oxford , and author of the well - known Philobiblon , the great repertory of information as to medieval books and libraries . Mr. Edwards justly calls ...
... known as Richard of Bury , the first recorded donor of books to the University of Oxford , and author of the well - known Philobiblon , the great repertory of information as to medieval books and libraries . Mr. Edwards justly calls ...
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Página 112 - The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed.