A Critical Dictionary of English Literature: And British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices, with Forty Indexes of Subjects, Tom 1J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1858 |
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... language , renders a careful selection absolutely indispensable . It has been computed that of the 650,000 ( ? ) volumes in the English language , about 50,000 would repay a peru- sal ! Suppose a person to read 100 pages a day , or But ...
... language , renders a careful selection absolutely indispensable . It has been computed that of the 650,000 ( ? ) volumes in the English language , about 50,000 would repay a peru- sal ! Suppose a person to read 100 pages a day , or But ...
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... language , with the exception of this volume , which will answer his purpose . HORNE'S INTRODUCTION , and ORME's BIBLIOTHECA BIBLICA , treat of works which relate to the Scriptures , only . WILLIAMS'S CHRISTIAN PREACHER , and ...
... language , with the exception of this volume , which will answer his purpose . HORNE'S INTRODUCTION , and ORME's BIBLIOTHECA BIBLICA , treat of works which relate to the Scriptures , only . WILLIAMS'S CHRISTIAN PREACHER , and ...
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... language of this people we know but little : ' Though the Britains or Welch were the first possessors of this island whose names are recorded , and are therefore in civil history always considered as the predecessors of the present ...
... language of this people we know but little : ' Though the Britains or Welch were the first possessors of this island whose names are recorded , and are therefore in civil history always considered as the predecessors of the present ...
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... language ; and this was brought about so ascribed , by Bede , a tract ( in Latin ) on British His- gradually , that we are not relieved of much of our difficulty , tory under the Romans , and during the Saxon inva- whether some ...
... language ; and this was brought about so ascribed , by Bede , a tract ( in Latin ) on British His- gradually , that we are not relieved of much of our difficulty , tory under the Romans , and during the Saxon inva- whether some ...
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... language during the twelfth century , that , until the close of the century , it has no great attraction beyond a few historical productions which might as well have been written in Latin , and one or two metrical romances . . . . . It ...
... language during the twelfth century , that , until the close of the century , it has no great attraction beyond a few historical productions which might as well have been written in Latin , and one or two metrical romances . . . . . It ...
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Strona 11 - LIBRARY. What a world of wit is here packed up together ! I know not whether this sight doth more dismay or comfort me ; it dismays me to think that here is so much that I cannot know ; it comforts me to think that this variety yields so good helps to know what I should. There is no truer word than that of Solomon — there is no end of making many books...
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