Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1890 - 864 páginas |
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... Four Centuries Ago — Why Hairs were put in Ancient Seals - Fining People for not Getting Married - A Curious Matrimonial Advertisement . Facetiæ . 477 Odd Titles for a Sham Library - Puns of Tom Hood - The Jests of Hierocles- Curious ...
... Four Centuries Ago — Why Hairs were put in Ancient Seals - Fining People for not Getting Married - A Curious Matrimonial Advertisement . Facetiæ . 477 Odd Titles for a Sham Library - Puns of Tom Hood - The Jests of Hierocles- Curious ...
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... Four Awls and the Grave Morris- -The " Queer Door , " and the Pig and Whistle ” -Heraldic Signs of the Middle Ages- " I have a Cunen Fox , & c . " - Versified Inscriptions - Cooper and his " Zwei Glasses " -How a Sign Cost a Man his ...
... Four Awls and the Grave Morris- -The " Queer Door , " and the Pig and Whistle ” -Heraldic Signs of the Middle Ages- " I have a Cunen Fox , & c . " - Versified Inscriptions - Cooper and his " Zwei Glasses " -How a Sign Cost a Man his ...
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... four - and - twenty - books , having en- tirely banished the letter A from his first book , which was called Alpha , ( as lucus a non lucendo , ) because there was not an alpha in it . His second book was inscribed Beta , for the same ...
... four - and - twenty - books , having en- tirely banished the letter A from his first book , which was called Alpha , ( as lucus a non lucendo , ) because there was not an alpha in it . His second book was inscribed Beta , for the same ...
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... four - and - twenty persons , ( representatives of the alphabet , ) who are unable to overtake him . Addison should , however , have mentioned that Tryphiodorus is kept in countenance by no less an authority than Pindar , who ...
... four - and - twenty persons , ( representatives of the alphabet , ) who are unable to overtake him . Addison should , however , have mentioned that Tryphiodorus is kept in countenance by no less an authority than Pindar , who ...
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... 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 Coptic , thirty - two ; the Georgian , thirty ...
... 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 Coptic , thirty - two ; the Georgian , thirty ...
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