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... hundred faults in this thing ; yet a book may be amus- ing with numerous errors , or it may be dull without a single absurdity . " It would be great temerity to appropriate to our humble essay the witty analysis of the witty author ...
... hundred faults in this thing ; yet a book may be amus- ing with numerous errors , or it may be dull without a single absurdity . " It would be great temerity to appropriate to our humble essay the witty analysis of the witty author ...
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... hundred and eighty - two pages , and , being the first ever printed , of course involved a long period of time , and an immense amount of mental , manual , and mecha- nical labor , and yet for a long time after it had been finished and ...
... hundred and eighty - two pages , and , being the first ever printed , of course involved a long period of time , and an immense amount of mental , manual , and mecha- nical labor , and yet for a long time after it had been finished and ...
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... hundred workmen , this indefatigable man actually gave to the world no fewer than five thousand closely printed folio pages from his own pen , consisting chiefly of translations from the French , or the stock of his own vernacu- lar ...
... hundred workmen , this indefatigable man actually gave to the world no fewer than five thousand closely printed folio pages from his own pen , consisting chiefly of translations from the French , or the stock of his own vernacu- lar ...
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... hundred and forty - five books , and twenty - seven children ! He lived in the neighborhood of Holborn Conduit . " Richard Grafton , of London , was distinguished alike for his erudition , as well as being an eminent printer . He was a ...
... hundred and forty - five books , and twenty - seven children ! He lived in the neighborhood of Holborn Conduit . " Richard Grafton , of London , was distinguished alike for his erudition , as well as being an eminent printer . He was a ...
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... hundred golden crowns per diem , no equivocal evidence of the extent of his operations . He also retained , not only in his friendship , but in his employ , a host of the literary men of his day , among the number the renowned De Thou ...
... hundred golden crowns per diem , no equivocal evidence of the extent of his operations . He also retained , not only in his friendship , but in his employ , a host of the literary men of his day , among the number the renowned De Thou ...
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