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“Table-talk,” informs us that, in Egypt, there are colleges of priests which renounce marriage.
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Haydon's _Correspondence and Table-talk_, together with a
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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Haydon's Correspondence and Table-talk, with a Memoir by his son,
Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball
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Samuel Rogers, in his _Table-talk_, gives a quaint picture of the household: --
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Table-talk ran its normal course; a great Pole's philosophy receiving flagellation at the hands of our incorrigible optimist.
The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907
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The subject of the personality and presence of Satan was a familiar one with Luther, and he has many things about it in his Table-talk.
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Milton, of Pope, of Johnson's Table-talk, and of Walter Scott, have become a portion of the vernacular tongue, the household words, of which perhaps we little guess the origin, and the very idioms of our familiar conversation ....
On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Correspondence and Table-talk, together with a Memoir written in a tone of querulous complaint, by his second son, Frederick, who, it may be noted, had been dismissed from the public service for publishing a letter to Mr. Gladstone, entitled Our Officials at the Home Office, and who died in the Bethlehem Hospital in 1886.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902
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One of these days I shall make a book of his Table-talk.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896
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[355] Dyce's Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers, p. 45.
Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895
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