Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesGibbings, 1894 - 1104 páginas |
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... century , " Præcepta de Medicina , " by Q. Serenus Sammonicus . It is now often used in the general sense of a spell , or pretended conjuring , jargon , or gibberish . Absence makes the heart grow fonder . This line occurs in Thomas ...
... century , " Præcepta de Medicina , " by Q. Serenus Sammonicus . It is now often used in the general sense of a spell , or pretended conjuring , jargon , or gibberish . Absence makes the heart grow fonder . This line occurs in Thomas ...
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... century , who placed precious stones in such an order that the initials of their names formed the name of the recipient of the gift . Thus , the Princess of Wales , on her marriage , presented her groom with a ring set with the follow ...
... century , who placed precious stones in such an order that the initials of their names formed the name of the recipient of the gift . Thus , the Princess of Wales , on her marriage , presented her groom with a ring set with the follow ...
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... century previous , on the continent of Europe , newspapers and newspaper advertisements had been foreshadowed in small news pam- phlets printed at irregular intervals in Vienna and other parts of Germany . The oldest newspaper paragraph ...
... century previous , on the continent of Europe , newspapers and newspaper advertisements had been foreshadowed in small news pam- phlets printed at irregular intervals in Vienna and other parts of Germany . The oldest newspaper paragraph ...
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... centuries or so , gleaning those curious and eccen- tric advertisements which illustrate in the most amusing fashion ... century finds her legitimate successor , her modern double , in the Ellen Rose of Stamford , Connecticut , who in ...
... centuries or so , gleaning those curious and eccen- tric advertisements which illustrate in the most amusing fashion ... century finds her legitimate successor , her modern double , in the Ellen Rose of Stamford , Connecticut , who in ...
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... century , into an art that taxes all the creative facul- ties of the human mind . Their forerunners of past ages trusted merely to the resources of a gorgeous vocabulary . They used up all the laudatory adjectives in the language , and ...
... century , into an art that taxes all the creative facul- ties of the human mind . Their forerunners of past ages trusted merely to the resources of a gorgeous vocabulary . They used up all the laudatory adjectives in the language , and ...
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