Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... wrote to his son Pantagruel , commanding him to learn Greek , Latin , Chaldaic , and Arabic ; all history , geometry , arithmetic , music , astronomy , natural philosophy , etc. , " so that there be not a river in the world thou dost ...
... wrote to his son Pantagruel , commanding him to learn Greek , Latin , Chaldaic , and Arabic ; all history , geometry , arithmetic , music , astronomy , natural philosophy , etc. , " so that there be not a river in the world thou dost ...
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... wrote an ode from which the letter sigma was carefully excluded . tators . This caprice of Tryphiodorus has not been without its imi- Peter de Riga , a canon of Rheims , wrote a summary of the Bible in twenty - three sections , and ...
... wrote an ode from which the letter sigma was carefully excluded . tators . This caprice of Tryphiodorus has not been without its imi- Peter de Riga , a canon of Rheims , wrote a summary of the Bible in twenty - three sections , and ...
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... wrote one line in her song , Kathleen Mavourneen , for the express purpose of confounding the cock- ney warblers , who sing it thus : - The ' orn of the ' unter is ' eard on the ' ill . Moore has laid the same trap in the Woodpecker ...
... wrote one line in her song , Kathleen Mavourneen , for the express purpose of confounding the cock- ney warblers , who sing it thus : - The ' orn of the ' unter is ' eard on the ' ill . Moore has laid the same trap in the Woodpecker ...
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... wrote ! ' " Among the modern examples of acrostic writing , the most remarkable may be found in the works of Boccaccio . It is a poem of fifty cantos , of which Guinguenè has preserved a speci- men in his Literary History of Italy . A ...
... wrote ! ' " Among the modern examples of acrostic writing , the most remarkable may be found in the works of Boccaccio . It is a poem of fifty cantos , of which Guinguenè has preserved a speci- men in his Literary History of Italy . A ...
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... wrote the word " STRIPES , " stating at the time that the letters making up the word stripes could be changed so as to make an answer to his question . The result proved satisfactory . When I cry that I sin is transposed , it 54 ...
... wrote the word " STRIPES , " stating at the time that the letters making up the word stripes could be changed so as to make an answer to his question . The result proved satisfactory . When I cry that I sin is transposed , it 54 ...
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