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Christians after the maner of the Grecians, vsing greeke bookes and
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Having 'small latine and lesse greeke' I depend on the translations, and I still recall my bafflement on finding that many of Martial's choicest epigrams were translated by the Loeb editor into Italian!
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Christians after the maner of the Grecians, vsing greeke bookes and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This her husband vehemently denied; and long discussions and explanations followed on the hat's topishness, -- "Mr. Ainsworth dilating much upon a greeke worde" (as of course so learned a man would).
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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¶ There be also certen kindes of sportes meete for chyldren, wherwyth theyr earnest studye must somwhat be eased after they be come to that, they muste lerne those higher thynges whyche can not be perceiued wythoute diligence and laboure: as are the handling of Themes, to turne latine into Greeke, or greeke into latine, or to learne cosmographie wythout booke.
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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"TheLiterary Interests of the First Carters." p. 50.) [2.13] Louis B. Wright thought this entrymight be The liues of the noble grecians and romanes, compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, plutarke of chaeronea: translated out of greeke into french by iames amyot, abbot of bellozane, bishop of auxerre, one of the kings priuy counsel, and great amner of fraunce, and out of french into englishe, by Thomas North.
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