New Curiosities of Literature & Book of the Months, Том 2 |
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The priests of France , called Druidæ , are of opinion , and so they deliver it , that these serpents when they have thus engendered this egg , doe cast it up on high into the aire , by the force of their hissing , which being observed ...
The priests of France , called Druidæ , are of opinion , and so they deliver it , that these serpents when they have thus engendered this egg , doe cast it up on high into the aire , by the force of their hissing , which being observed ...
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The MS . , of which this is a copy , appears to be about 160 years old ; yet ( as your Lordship will observe by the Title ) it is itself a Copy of one yet more Antient by about 100 years . For the original is said to have been the Hand ...
The MS . , of which this is a copy , appears to be about 160 years old ; yet ( as your Lordship will observe by the Title ) it is itself a Copy of one yet more Antient by about 100 years . For the original is said to have been the Hand ...
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... was in the hand - writing of Henry the Sixth ; now we are told it was penned by a clerk , for be it observed he is not speaking of the copyist of the Bodleian manuscript , but of the " clerk , who first took down the examination .
... was in the hand - writing of Henry the Sixth ; now we are told it was penned by a clerk , for be it observed he is not speaking of the copyist of the Bodleian manuscript , but of the " clerk , who first took down the examination .
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I may here observe that this is one only of three accounts , given , or said to be given , by Gregory of Tours in regard to the Seven Sleepers . It is not to be found , as far as I know , in any edition of the bishop's works ...
I may here observe that this is one only of three accounts , given , or said to be given , by Gregory of Tours in regard to the Seven Sleepers . It is not to be found , as far as I know , in any edition of the bishop's works ...
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Valentine's Day is duly observed ; the swains vent not their passions on sheets speckled with tinsel , and inter- larded with Cupids , yet their epistles abound with the usual inflated hyperbole , which would not disgrace modern ...
Valentine's Day is duly observed ; the swains vent not their passions on sheets speckled with tinsel , and inter- larded with Cupids , yet their epistles abound with the usual inflated hyperbole , which would not disgrace modern ...
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