Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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Page ix
... answer to the question , who is the true gentleman ? -Misquotations from the scriptures . - References to the humor which is to be found in the Bible - The form of divination called Bibliomancy , which was abolished centuries ago .. 103 ...
... answer to the question , who is the true gentleman ? -Misquotations from the scriptures . - References to the humor which is to be found in the Bible - The form of divination called Bibliomancy , which was abolished centuries ago .. 103 ...
Page xiii
... answering the lover . - Dean Swift's verses on woman . - Napoleon's interview with echo , which cost a Nuremburg publisher his life . - Echo answerings.— Mention of the localities of the most remarkable echoes known -Extra- ordinary ...
... answering the lover . - Dean Swift's verses on woman . - Napoleon's interview with echo , which cost a Nuremburg publisher his life . - Echo answerings.— Mention of the localities of the most remarkable echoes known -Extra- ordinary ...
Page xvii
... answer to an appeal . - Penn's aversion to smoking . - Expressiveness of letters . - Keppel and the Dey of Algiers ... answers to as many questions as to the relative desirability of wisdom and wealth . - Turkish homicide without ...
... answer to an appeal . - Penn's aversion to smoking . - Expressiveness of letters . - Keppel and the Dey of Algiers ... answers to as many questions as to the relative desirability of wisdom and wealth . - Turkish homicide without ...
Page xxiii
... Answers to the question , what is Earth ? -Rhyming grant of William the Conquerer . - Puzzling questions for lawyers . The bone denominated Luz . - Dying words of distin- guished persons . - The last prayer of Mary , Queen of Scots ...
... Answers to the question , what is Earth ? -Rhyming grant of William the Conquerer . - Puzzling questions for lawyers . The bone denominated Luz . - Dying words of distin- guished persons . - The last prayer of Mary , Queen of Scots ...
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... answer of seven pages , in which he observed the same severe ostracism against the letter R. Du Chat , in the " Ducatiana , " says " there are five novels in prose , of Lope de Vega , similarly avoiding the vowels ; the first without A ...
... answer of seven pages , in which he observed the same severe ostracism against the letter R. Du Chat , in the " Ducatiana , " says " there are five novels in prose , of Lope de Vega , similarly avoiding the vowels ; the first without A ...
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