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... seems unlikely , because they were not so easily brought over as the Pope's bulls ( the pun is quite unavoidable ) , and were undoubtedly inhabitants of our ancient forests at a very early period . However , my present object is only to ...
... seems unlikely , because they were not so easily brought over as the Pope's bulls ( the pun is quite unavoidable ) , and were undoubtedly inhabitants of our ancient forests at a very early period . However , my present object is only to ...
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... seems to have had the clearest notion of the requirements of the passage . He saw that " the word , whatever the meaning of it might be , was intended as a proper name ; " but he word with an English termination . was not happy in ...
... seems to have had the clearest notion of the requirements of the passage . He saw that " the word , whatever the meaning of it might be , was intended as a proper name ; " but he word with an English termination . was not happy in ...
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... seems to have been a satire on the female sex ; but the text , I am sorry to say , is not in my possession . H. T. RILEY . " Hurrah , " and other War - cries ( Vol . vii . , p . 596. ) . -The following passage ( which I find in my notes ...
... seems to have been a satire on the female sex ; but the text , I am sorry to say , is not in my possession . H. T. RILEY . " Hurrah , " and other War - cries ( Vol . vii . , p . 596. ) . -The following passage ( which I find in my notes ...
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... seems to indicate the most prominent characteristic , or what we should deem to be par excellence the obvious qualities of the eye ; in a word , we should scarcely expect a term derived from a physical attribute or property . The eye is ...
... seems to indicate the most prominent characteristic , or what we should deem to be par excellence the obvious qualities of the eye ; in a word , we should scarcely expect a term derived from a physical attribute or property . The eye is ...
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... seems indubitably to de- rive its name from Phthah , the Egyptian Hephas- tus , and to be a translation of the word Hellas . N.B. The existence of an Egyptian colony in that part is attested by the existence of a Phthiotic Theba . ( 3 ...
... seems indubitably to de- rive its name from Phthah , the Egyptian Hephas- tus , and to be a translation of the word Hellas . N.B. The existence of an Egyptian colony in that part is attested by the existence of a Phthiotic Theba . ( 3 ...
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