Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 páginas |
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... Hundred ; La Marseillaise ; Yankee Doodle ; the American Flag ; Brother Jonathan ; Uncle Sam ; the dollar mark ; origin of various inventions and cus- tems ; cock - fighting ; turncoat ; India - rubber ; friction matches ; the flag of ...
... Hundred ; La Marseillaise ; Yankee Doodle ; the American Flag ; Brother Jonathan ; Uncle Sam ; the dollar mark ; origin of various inventions and cus- tems ; cock - fighting ; turncoat ; India - rubber ; friction matches ; the flag of ...
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... hundred and eleven languages.— Literary oddities , and the singularities of their habits . - The war of cul- ture upon ignorance , and its perpetual sacrifices in the strife . - Sharon Turner's contemptible meanness , and outrageous ...
... hundred and eleven languages.— Literary oddities , and the singularities of their habits . - The war of cul- ture upon ignorance , and its perpetual sacrifices in the strife . - Sharon Turner's contemptible meanness , and outrageous ...
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... hundred lines , almost all the words of which he contrived to conclude with the letter E. The Pangrammatists contrive to crowd all the letters of the The prophet Ezra may be alphabet into every single verse . regarded as the father of ...
... hundred lines , almost all the words of which he contrived to conclude with the letter E. The Pangrammatists contrive to crowd all the letters of the The prophet Ezra may be alphabet into every single verse . regarded as the father of ...
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... hundred new . The following anagram , preserved in the files of the First Church in Roxbury , was sent to Thomas Dudley , a governor and major - general of the colony of Massachusetts , in 1645 . He died in 1653 , aged 77 . THOMAS ...
... hundred new . The following anagram , preserved in the files of the First Church in Roxbury , was sent to Thomas Dudley , a governor and major - general of the colony of Massachusetts , in 1645 . He died in 1653 , aged 77 . THOMAS ...
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... hundred medals coined in honor of Martin Luther . An inscription on one of them ex- presses the date of his death , 1546 , as follows : ECCe nVnc MorItVs IVstVs In paCe ChrIstI exItV tVto et beato . The most extraordinary attempt of ...
... hundred medals coined in honor of Martin Luther . An inscription on one of them ex- presses the date of his death , 1546 , as follows : ECCe nVnc MorItVs IVstVs In paCe ChrIstI exItV tVto et beato . The most extraordinary attempt of ...
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