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More than 20 years ago Marie Paiva made her first visit to Addis Ababa University to assist in developing their library. At the time of her first visit, she didn’t know what to expect, but she was eager to visit Ethiopia, learn about the culture,...
“A catt may look on a king”Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish… James Howell (1594? – 1666) London: Printed by J.G. for Samuel Thompson, 1660 First and only editionJames Howell, born in Wales and educated at Oxford, began his literary career in 1640 with the political allegory, Dendrologia: Dodona’s...
“When the mind has been made up to encounter disasters and reverses, and has fixed a point as the zero of its scale, however for the time it may be depressed by doubts and difficulties, it will mount up again with the first gleam of...
