The Reliques of Father ProutG. Bell, 1889 - 580 pages |
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... JESUITS . VERT - VERT , THE PARROT THE SONGS OF FRANCE : CHAPTER I. - WINE AND WAR 99 • II . WOMEN AND WOODEN SHOES III - PHILOSOPHY • " " 99 IV . FROGS AND FREE TRADE THE SONGS OF ITALY : CHAPTER I. 29 II . THE SONGS OF HORACE : DECADE ...
... JESUITS . VERT - VERT , THE PARROT THE SONGS OF FRANCE : CHAPTER I. - WINE AND WAR 99 • II . WOMEN AND WOODEN SHOES III - PHILOSOPHY • " " 99 IV . FROGS AND FREE TRADE THE SONGS OF ITALY : CHAPTER I. 29 II . THE SONGS OF HORACE : DECADE ...
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... quæ extant omnia ; by which semblance of that old Jesuit's commentaries he consoled himself for the absence of the original . His classic acquirements were considerable , as will appear by 6 FATHER PROUT'S RELIQUES .
... quæ extant omnia ; by which semblance of that old Jesuit's commentaries he consoled himself for the absence of the original . His classic acquirements were considerable , as will appear by 6 FATHER PROUT'S RELIQUES .
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... Jesuit , Angelo Mai , now librarian of the Vatican , rejoice more over a " palimpsest " MS . of some crazy old monk , in which his quick eye fondly had detected the long - lost decade of Livy - never did friend Pettigrew gloat over a ...
... Jesuit , Angelo Mai , now librarian of the Vatican , rejoice more over a " palimpsest " MS . of some crazy old monk , in which his quick eye fondly had detected the long - lost decade of Livy - never did friend Pettigrew gloat over a ...
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... Jesuit , who gained great renown among the wits of Louis XIVth's time by his paradoxes . A favourite maggot hatched in his prolific brain was , that the Odes of Horace never were written by the friend of Mecenas , but were an imposture ...
... Jesuit , who gained great renown among the wits of Louis XIVth's time by his paradoxes . A favourite maggot hatched in his prolific brain was , that the Odes of Horace never were written by the friend of Mecenas , but were an imposture ...
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... Jesuit , thus denounced : " Sed bellicosis fata Quiritibus Hâc lege dico , ne nimiùm pii , Tecta velint reparare Troja ... Jesuits , and , I may add , the Benedictines being as distinct and as superior bodies of monastic men to the re ...
... Jesuit , thus denounced : " Sed bellicosis fata Quiritibus Hâc lege dico , ne nimiùm pii , Tecta velint reparare Troja ... Jesuits , and , I may add , the Benedictines being as distinct and as superior bodies of monastic men to the re ...
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