Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesGibbings, 1894 - 1104 páginas |
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... told of a monk named Hugbald who wrote an " Ecloga de Calvis , " every word beginning with e , and of a certain " Publium Porcium , poetam , " who so signed a Latin poem of one hundred lines , -to be found in the Nuga Venates , -every ...
... told of a monk named Hugbald who wrote an " Ecloga de Calvis , " every word beginning with e , and of a certain " Publium Porcium , poetam , " who so signed a Latin poem of one hundred lines , -to be found in the Nuga Venates , -every ...
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... told me that on Mondays , Wednesdays , and Fridays the ship's company had no allowance of meat , and that these meagre days were called Banyan - days , the reason of which they did not know , but I have since learned they take their ...
... told me that on Mondays , Wednesdays , and Fridays the ship's company had no allowance of meat , and that these meagre days were called Banyan - days , the reason of which they did not know , but I have since learned they take their ...
Página 102
... told about the phrase , but , if true , Somers was quoting rather than originating , as the proverb antedates him . The analogous French saying is " Un tiens vaut deux tu l'auras . " Bird . A little bird told me . An almost universal ...
... told about the phrase , but , if true , Somers was quoting rather than originating , as the proverb antedates him . The analogous French saying is " Un tiens vaut deux tu l'auras . " Bird . A little bird told me . An almost universal ...
Página 109
... told in jest that it was so little necessary that he might appear there , if he pleased , in blue stockings . This he understood in the literal sense , and , when he spoke of it in French , called it the Bas Bleu meet- ing . And this ...
... told in jest that it was so little necessary that he might appear there , if he pleased , in blue stockings . This he understood in the literal sense , and , when he spoke of it in French , called it the Bas Bleu meet- ing . And this ...
Página 115
... told a deputation who waited upon him to congratulate him on the success of his effort to liber- ate Kossuth , that the past crisis was one which had required much generalship and judgment , and that a good deal of judicious bottle ...
... told a deputation who waited upon him to congratulate him on the success of his effort to liber- ate Kossuth , that the past crisis was one which had required much generalship and judgment , and that a good deal of judicious bottle ...
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