Book, Chapter

 1  Pre     |        Melmouth's version of the letters of Pliny the Younger, made,
 2  Int     |  interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this scintillating
 3  Int,   4|    difficulty in deciphering the letters, and finally, driven by
 4    1,  14|     efforts. Both you and I know letters, but that I may not stand
 5    2,  62|      that, but I know my capital letters and I can divide any figure
 6    3,  88|     deplore the status of men of letters." "No," I answered, "that
 7    4, 106|         it! Eumolpus is a man of letters. He will have ink about
 8    4, 107|      have been branded! The same letters will serve both to quiet
 9    4, 107| foreheads completely, with large letters and, with a liberal hand,
10    4, 109|          the seared scars of the letters to be hidden in the least,
11    4, 110|     those scars were made by the letters on the branding-iron! If
12    5, 145|        the acquittal of Clodius (Letters to Atticus, lib. i, 18),
13    5, 145|          in burning and frequent letters presses his ardent suit,
14    6     |         boon to knowledge and to letters. Egypt has furnished us
15    6     |     judging from the form of the letters employed, we should say
16    6     |         pages containing written letters, which had been almost effaced.
17    6     |         whose home gather men of letters and men of the world; the
18    6     |         age of taste in arts and letters. Such an one also was Phryne,
19    6     |       and Cicero charges, in his letters to Atticus, that the judges
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