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... considered . Lond . , 1797 , 8vo . Habicht , M. Tausend und Eine Nacht . 8vo . 12 Bde . Breslau , 1825-43 . Tausend und eine Nacht , Arabische Erzählungen . Zum ersten Male aus dem Urtext vollstandig u . treu ucbersetzt , von G. Weil ...
... considered . Lond . , 1797 , 8vo . Habicht , M. Tausend und Eine Nacht . 8vo . 12 Bde . Breslau , 1825-43 . Tausend und eine Nacht , Arabische Erzählungen . Zum ersten Male aus dem Urtext vollstandig u . treu ucbersetzt , von G. Weil ...
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... considered to have been a philosophic treatise upon love , by others a romance , by others a collection of short erotic tales . Antonius Diogenes flourished probably considerably after the commence- ment of the Christian era , and not ...
... considered to have been a philosophic treatise upon love , by others a romance , by others a collection of short erotic tales . Antonius Diogenes flourished probably considerably after the commence- ment of the Christian era , and not ...
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... considered in a novel or romance , the Subject , the Disposition , and the Orna- ments ; a classification which may be regarded as compre- hending the means of estimating the most material beauties and defects of any fictitious ...
... considered in a novel or romance , the Subject , the Disposition , and the Orna- ments ; a classification which may be regarded as compre- hending the means of estimating the most material beauties and defects of any fictitious ...
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... considered ; of these the most important are the Style , the Characters , the Sentiments , and the Descrip- tions . The Style of Heliodorus has been blamed as too figura- tive and poetical ; but this censure seems chiefly applicable to ...
... considered ; of these the most important are the Style , the Characters , the Sentiments , and the Descrip- tions . The Style of Heliodorus has been blamed as too figura- tive and poetical ; but this censure seems chiefly applicable to ...
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... considered a reproach from those who were anxious to be informed , and as if those who were in- terrogated would not scruple to acknowledge their vocation . Even at the time of the Peloponnesian war , the Etolians , Acarnanians , and ...
... considered a reproach from those who were anxious to be informed , and as if those who were in- terrogated would not scruple to acknowledge their vocation . Even at the time of the Peloponnesian war , the Etolians , Acarnanians , and ...
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