Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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Page viii
... French Rev- olution , and the late sectional war in the United States . - The ingenui- ties of non - committal . L The Cento . 64 ITERARY Mosaics afford instructive as well as entertaining pas- time . In framing such patch work , so ...
... French Rev- olution , and the late sectional war in the United States . - The ingenui- ties of non - committal . L The Cento . 64 ITERARY Mosaics afford instructive as well as entertaining pas- time . In framing such patch work , so ...
Page xiii
... French for this species of amusement . - Key to the cipher used by Bonaparte in confidential correspondence . — A case for the lawyers . -Riddles of Newton , Cowper and Canning . - The prize enigma.— Quincy's comparison . — Singular ...
... French for this species of amusement . - Key to the cipher used by Bonaparte in confidential correspondence . — A case for the lawyers . -Riddles of Newton , Cowper and Canning . - The prize enigma.— Quincy's comparison . — Singular ...
Page xvii
... French millionaire . - Voltaire and Haller . - Bacon and Hogg . - Eldon's judg ment . - Thackeray handsomely snubbed . - Spurgeon's simile . - Ellen- borough's crushing particularity . The Sexes . 495 IRTUES and vices not essentially ...
... French millionaire . - Voltaire and Haller . - Bacon and Hogg . - Eldon's judg ment . - Thackeray handsomely snubbed . - Spurgeon's simile . - Ellen- borough's crushing particularity . The Sexes . 495 IRTUES and vices not essentially ...
Page xxii
... French tricolor not a revolutionary flag . - Bona- partean newspaper scale - The flight of Eugenie from France to Chisel- hurst . - Predictions in a sonnet . - L'Empire c'est la Paix . Jefferson's impressions of Marie Antoinette ...
... French tricolor not a revolutionary flag . - Bona- partean newspaper scale - The flight of Eugenie from France to Chisel- hurst . - Predictions in a sonnet . - L'Empire c'est la Paix . Jefferson's impressions of Marie Antoinette ...
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... French , twenty - three ; the Greek , twenty - four ; the Latin , twenty - five ; the German , Dutch , and English , twenty- six each ; the Spanish and Sclavonic , twenty - seven each ; the Arabic , twenty - eight ; the Persian and ...
... French , twenty - three ; the Greek , twenty - four ; the Latin , twenty - five ; the German , Dutch , and English , twenty- six each ; the Spanish and Sclavonic , twenty - seven each ; the Arabic , twenty - eight ; the Persian and ...
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