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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...nial. On the other hand, Rabelais has been several times trans- lated into German. In the present century Regis published at Leipsic, from 1831 to 184... ...t it would be none the less curious were some one thoroughly familiar with German to translate Fischart for us, or at least, by long extracts from him... ...s, or at least, by long extracts from him, give an idea of the vagaries of German taste when it thought it could do better than Rabelais. It is danger... ...ion published by Didot in 1857 has an altogether special character. In the biographical notice M. Rathery for the first time treated as they deserve t... ... forehead bone, by which terrible blow likewise he cut the two meninges or films which enwrap the brain, and made a deep wound in the brain’s two post... ...irable industry, with husks, cases, scurfs and swads, hulls, cods, stones, films, cartels, shells, ears, rinds, barks, skins, ridges, and prickles, wh...

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