The Works of Apuleius: Comprising the Metamorphoses, Or Golden Ass, the God of Socrates, the Florida, and His Defence, Or A Discourse on MagicG. Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 533 pages |
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... Present . Upwards of 100 fine Engravings on Wood , and a Map . Jesse's Anecdotes of Dogs . New Edi- tion , with large additions . Numerous fine Woodcuts after Harvey , Bewick , and others . ; or , with the addition of 31 highly ...
... Present . Upwards of 100 fine Engravings on Wood , and a Map . Jesse's Anecdotes of Dogs . New Edi- tion , with large additions . Numerous fine Woodcuts after Harvey , Bewick , and others . ; or , with the addition of 31 highly ...
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... present inquiries , succeeded to his office . These facts we learn from the direct testimony of the son in his Apologia or Defence ; but most of the biographers of Apuleius add other particulars , drawn from the assumption that , under ...
... present inquiries , succeeded to his office . These facts we learn from the direct testimony of the son in his Apologia or Defence ; but most of the biographers of Apuleius add other particulars , drawn from the assumption that , under ...
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... jugglers of the ancients received their name of circulatores ' from their exhibit- ing in a ring of people , like those of the present day . in the extreme , blade foremost , and afterwards , 4 THE GOLDEN ASS OF APULEIUS .
... jugglers of the ancients received their name of circulatores ' from their exhibit- ing in a ring of people , like those of the present day . in the extreme , blade foremost , and afterwards , 4 THE GOLDEN ASS OF APULEIUS .
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... present . You would have said it was the noble serpent , clinging with its slippery coils to the knotted staff , with half - clipped branches , which the God of Medicine carries . But you , who began the story , be good enough to repeat ...
... present . You would have said it was the noble serpent , clinging with its slippery coils to the knotted staff , with half - clipped branches , which the God of Medicine carries . But you , who began the story , be good enough to repeat ...
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... present of those garments which the robbers , in their humanity , had left me to cover my nakedness . I likewise presented her with the little earnings I made by working as a cloakmaker while I was yet in good con- dition of body ...
... present of those garments which the robbers , in their humanity , had left me to cover my nakedness . I likewise presented her with the little earnings I made by working as a cloakmaker while I was yet in good con- dition of body ...
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