Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... languages.— Literary oddities , and the singularities of their habits . - The war of cul- ture upon ignorance , and its perpetual sacrifices in the strife . - Sharon Turner's contemptible meanness , and outrageous disregard of the value ...
... languages.— Literary oddities , and the singularities of their habits . - The war of cul- ture upon ignorance , and its perpetual sacrifices in the strife . - Sharon Turner's contemptible meanness , and outrageous disregard of the value ...
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... and making his escape from it , through the different Greek dialects , when he was presented with it in any particular syllable ; for the most apt and elegant word in the whole language was rejected , like a diamond with. 3 25.
... and making his escape from it , through the different Greek dialects , when he was presented with it in any particular syllable ; for the most apt and elegant word in the whole language was rejected , like a diamond with. 3 25.
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Charles Carroll Bombaugh. the whole language was rejected , like a diamond with a flaw in it , if it appeared blemished with the wrong letter . " In Nɔ . 63 , Addison has again introduced Tryphiodorus , in his Vision of the Region of ...
Charles Carroll Bombaugh. the whole language was rejected , like a diamond with a flaw in it , if it appeared blemished with the wrong letter . " In Nɔ . 63 , Addison has again introduced Tryphiodorus , in his Vision of the Region of ...
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... language has been almost wholly an exercise of inge- nuity , and has been considered fit only for trivial subjects , to be classed among nugæ literaria . The word in its derivation includes various artificial arrangements of lines , and ...
... language has been almost wholly an exercise of inge- nuity , and has been considered fit only for trivial subjects , to be classed among nugæ literaria . The word in its derivation includes various artificial arrangements of lines , and ...
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... language . Cicero , in his treatise " De Divinatione , " has this remarkable passage : " The verses of the Sybils ( said he ) are distinguished by that arrangement which the Greeks call Acrostic ; where , from the first letters of each ...
... language . Cicero , in his treatise " De Divinatione , " has this remarkable passage : " The verses of the Sybils ( said he ) are distinguished by that arrangement which the Greeks call Acrostic ; where , from the first letters of each ...
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