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unusual facts about Miscellaneous Works



John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield

But he is remembered chiefly as the close friend and literary executor of Edward Gibbon (author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), whose Memoirs and other miscellaneous works he subsequently edited and published.

Parisina Malatesta

Edward Gibbon told this story in his Miscellaneous Works, and George Byron wrote the poem Parisina in 1816.

Reflections on the variations, or inconsistencies, which are found among the four Evangelists

-- all typography sic --> is an essay by Conyers Middleton; it was published posthumously in 1752 as a part of his Miscellaneous Works.


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Liu Bannong

During his time in Paris, he compiled Dunhuang Duosuo (敦煌掇瑣 "Miscellaneous works found in the Dunhuang Caves"), a pioneering work about the Dunhuang manuscripts.