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... Greek or Latin , are as re- markable for their beauty and exactness as any in the Aldine series . Among those classics we may enumerate 1. " Homer , " 4 vols . fol . Gr . 2. " Herodotus , " 9 vols . 12mo . 3. " Thucydides , " 8 vols ...
... Greek or Latin , are as re- markable for their beauty and exactness as any in the Aldine series . Among those classics we may enumerate 1. " Homer , " 4 vols . fol . Gr . 2. " Herodotus , " 9 vols . 12mo . 3. " Thucydides , " 8 vols ...
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... with the abbé Sevin , who loved study as well as himself , they formed a scheme of reading all Eloges des Academiciens , vol . V. - Dict . Hist , -European Mag . I the Greek and Latin poets together . But as the 12 FOUR CROY .
... with the abbé Sevin , who loved study as well as himself , they formed a scheme of reading all Eloges des Academiciens , vol . V. - Dict . Hist , -European Mag . I the Greek and Latin poets together . But as the 12 FOUR CROY .
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... Greek fathers to some , and the Hebrew and Syriac languages to others . After that , he undertook the education of the sons of the duke d'Antin , who were com- mitted to his care , and studied in the college of Harcourt . He was at the ...
... Greek fathers to some , and the Hebrew and Syriac languages to others . After that , he undertook the education of the sons of the duke d'Antin , who were com- mitted to his care , and studied in the college of Harcourt . He was at the ...
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... Greek and Latin , a tolerable poet and orator , a theologist not to be contemned ; and so versed also in criticism and other polite literature , that he might have passed for another Robert or Henry Stephens . He reduced into a ...
... Greek and Latin , a tolerable poet and orator , a theologist not to be contemned ; and so versed also in criticism and other polite literature , that he might have passed for another Robert or Henry Stephens . He reduced into a ...
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... Greek and Latin fathers , the schoolmen , the councils , & c .; and had also acquired a competent skill in the Hebrew language . But from this strict application by day and by night while at Oxford , from forsaking his friends for the ...
... Greek and Latin fathers , the schoolmen , the councils , & c .; and had also acquired a competent skill in the Hebrew language . But from this strict application by day and by night while at Oxford , from forsaking his friends for the ...
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