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aphorisms and apothegms10
literature1
political science1

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Bodenham, John2
Bodenham, John (1600-)2
Ling, Nicholas2
Ling, Nicholas (1600-)2
Auden, W H (1907-1973)1
Bridgen, John William1
Bulteel, John1
Bulteel, John (1683-)1
Colton, C C (1780?-1832)1
Crissy, James1

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The moral testament of a man

Crissy, James

1834

Statement on back of t-p that book was entered for copyright by James Crissy.

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The synopthegms of a prophet

Oxley, William (1939-)

c1981

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The Faber book of aphorisms : a personal selection

Auden, W H (1907-1973); Kronenberger, Louis (1904-1980); Bridgen, John William

[1964]

American edition (Viking [c1962]) has title: The Viking book of aphorisms.

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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

Bulteel, John (fl. 1683)

1683

"Epistle dedicatory" signed: John Bulteel. First ed. Cf. BM. The second ed., 1686, has title: A collection of apothegmes or sayings of the ancients. Advertisement on p. [1]-[3] at end. A1 is b...

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Politeuphuia, wits commonwealth. Newly corrected and amended

Ling, Nicholas (fl. 1600); Bodenham, John (fl. 1600)

1678

Usually ascribed to John Bodenham, who planned the collection though the work appears to have been done by Nicholas Ling. cf. Dedication; also Dict. nat. biog. Epistle dedicatory and "To the reader"...

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

Dallington, Sir Robert (1561-1637); Guicciardini, Francesco (1483-1540)

1629

Issued with (pt.2): A briefe inference upon Guicciardines digression, in the fourth part of the first quarterne of his Historie. Forbidden the impression, and effaced out of the originall by the Inqui...

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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 ****

Le Clerc, Jean (1657-1736)

1700

P.195 misnumbered 159. Chapter 10 is "Of Mr. Le Clerc's works", and concludes the book. Pages 281-288 repeated in pagination.

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Politeuphuia, wits common-wealth. Newly corrected and amended

Ling, Nicholas (fl. 1600); Bodenham, John (fl. 1600)

1650

Usually ascribed to John Bodenham, who planned the collection though the work appears to have been done by Nicholas Ling. cf. Dedication; also Dict. nat. biog. Epistle dedicatory and "To the reader"...

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Epigrams & aphorisms

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

1905

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