Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1890 - 864 pages |
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... expression of intellectual force ; from the anachronisms of art to the grandest revelations of science ; from selections for the child to extracts for the philosopher , it will accom- modate the widest diversity of taste , and furnish ...
... expression of intellectual force ; from the anachronisms of art to the grandest revelations of science ; from selections for the child to extracts for the philosopher , it will accom- modate the widest diversity of taste , and furnish ...
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... How Schott Will- ing - A Catalectic Monody - Bees of the Bible - Franklin's " Re's " -Funny " Miss - Nomers " -Crooked Coincidences - A Court Fool's Pun ......... 155 English Words and Forms of Expression . Dictionary English - X CONTENTS .
... How Schott Will- ing - A Catalectic Monody - Bees of the Bible - Franklin's " Re's " -Funny " Miss - Nomers " -Crooked Coincidences - A Court Fool's Pun ......... 155 English Words and Forms of Expression . Dictionary English - X CONTENTS .
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A Melange of Excerpta Charles Carroll Bombaugh. English Words and Forms of Expression . Dictionary English - Number of words in the English Language - Language of of the Bible - Sources of the Language - Helping a Foreigner ...
A Melange of Excerpta Charles Carroll Bombaugh. English Words and Forms of Expression . Dictionary English - Number of words in the English Language - Language of of the Bible - Sources of the Language - Helping a Foreigner ...
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... expressing agree- able reflections , in a volume containing a series of acrostics on eminent names , commencing with Homer , and descending chronologically to our own time . The alphabetic necessity of the choice of words and epithets ...
... expressing agree- able reflections , in a volume containing a series of acrostics on eminent names , commencing with Homer , and descending chronologically to our own time . The alphabetic necessity of the choice of words and epithets ...
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... expressions in English , - Madam , I'm Adam . ( Adam to Eve . ) Name no one man . Able was I ere I saw Elba . ( Napoleon loq . ) Snug & raw was I ere I saw war & guns . Red rum did emit revel ere Lever time did murder . Red root put up ...
... expressions in English , - Madam , I'm Adam . ( Adam to Eve . ) Name no one man . Able was I ere I saw Elba . ( Napoleon loq . ) Snug & raw was I ere I saw war & guns . Red rum did emit revel ere Lever time did murder . Red root put up ...
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