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... scholars ; and an ela- borate Index . Edited by an English Churchman . In 7 vols . VIII . Bohn's Ecclesiastical Library . UNIFORM WITH THE STANDARD LIBRARY , AT 5s . PER VOLUME . Eusebius ' With Notes . Ecclesiastical History . 1 Philo ...
... scholars ; and an ela- borate Index . Edited by an English Churchman . In 7 vols . VIII . Bohn's Ecclesiastical Library . UNIFORM WITH THE STANDARD LIBRARY , AT 5s . PER VOLUME . Eusebius ' With Notes . Ecclesiastical History . 1 Philo ...
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... scholars and philosophers that ever appeared have formed themselves , as the following pages will show . And let him who , smitten by the love of knowledge , may yet conceive himself to be on any account unfortunately circumstanced for ...
... scholars and philosophers that ever appeared have formed themselves , as the following pages will show . And let him who , smitten by the love of knowledge , may yet conceive himself to be on any account unfortunately circumstanced for ...
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... scholars of his own or of any age , and during his latter days enjoyed a degree of distinction , both in his own country and throughout Europe , of which scarcely any contemporary name , in the same depart- ment of literature , could ...
... scholars of his own or of any age , and during his latter days enjoyed a degree of distinction , both in his own country and throughout Europe , of which scarcely any contemporary name , in the same depart- ment of literature , could ...
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... scholars of the age , who declined , however , to leave the University of Leyden , where he had lately succeeded the eminent Hemsterhuys as Professor of Greek . But fortunately for Heyne , Ruhnken was one of the few to whom his edition ...
... scholars of the age , who declined , however , to leave the University of Leyden , where he had lately succeeded the eminent Hemsterhuys as Professor of Greek . But fortunately for Heyne , Ruhnken was one of the few to whom his edition ...
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... the celebrated Spanish dramatist LOPE DE VEGA . But , perhaps , the most extravagant pretensions of this kind that were ever brought forward , were those advanced by the famous JULIUS CESAR SCALIGER , one of the greatest scholars and.
... the celebrated Spanish dramatist LOPE DE VEGA . But , perhaps , the most extravagant pretensions of this kind that were ever brought forward , were those advanced by the famous JULIUS CESAR SCALIGER , one of the greatest scholars and.
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