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Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.
Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.

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The silent traveller's sayings

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Nine aphorisms from the notebooks of Konrad Fiedler

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Aphorismen

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Apothegms

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Apothegms

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The Apophthegmes of the ancients : taken out of Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, Elian, Atheneus, Stobeus, Macrobius and others : collected into one volume for the benefit and pleasure of the ingenious

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Politeuphuia, wits commonwealth. Newly corrected and amended

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Aphorismes civill and militarie : amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine

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Parrhasiana: or, Thoughts upon several subjects; as, criticism, history, morality, and politics. By Monsieur Le Clerk, under the feigned name of Theodorus Parrhasi. Done into English by ****

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1. Catonis disticha de moribus. 2. Dicta insignia septem sapientum Graeciae. 3. Mimi Publiani, sive, Senecae proverbia, anglo-latina. Cato item grammatice interpretatus latinis & vernaculis vocibus pari ordine, sed diversis lineis alternatis. Quò se aetatulâ puerilis praecepta vitae communis ita legant ut intelligant

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Aphorisms political

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