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... hundred leagues . 5th . From tale to tale ( and who dislikes tales ? ) we arrive at the infallible oracle of Delphos , which some- how foretold that Croesus would cook a quarter of lamb and a tortoise in a copper pan , and that he would ...
... hundred leagues . 5th . From tale to tale ( and who dislikes tales ? ) we arrive at the infallible oracle of Delphos , which some- how foretold that Croesus would cook a quarter of lamb and a tortoise in a copper pan , and that he would ...
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... hundred ears of wheat for one . I know a small country which yields three for one . I should like to have been transported to Diarbek when the Turks were driven from it by Catherine II . It has fine corn also , but returns not three hundred ...
... hundred ears of wheat for one . I know a small country which yields three for one . I should like to have been transported to Diarbek when the Turks were driven from it by Catherine II . It has fine corn also , but returns not three hundred ...
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Voltaire. numerically ; we should very soon , indeed , arrive at a hundred . All that Diodorus of Sicily says , seven centuries after Herodotus , is of the same value , in all that regards antiquities and physics . The abbé Terasson said ...
Voltaire. numerically ; we should very soon , indeed , arrive at a hundred . All that Diodorus of Sicily says , seven centuries after Herodotus , is of the same value , in all that regards antiquities and physics . The abbé Terasson said ...
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... hundred and eighty stadia , which is about eight of our long leagues . When Sesostris was of age , he departed with his racers to conquer the world . They were then about seventeen hundred , and probably half were dead ac- cording to ...
... hundred and eighty stadia , which is about eight of our long leagues . When Sesostris was of age , he departed with his racers to conquer the world . They were then about seventeen hundred , and probably half were dead ac- cording to ...
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... hundred thousand leagues , and whether they were of the size of a worm or of a moun- tain . It would be better to be born blind . We are then , perhaps , very wrong , when we say that our senses deceive us . Every one of our senses per ...
... hundred thousand leagues , and whether they were of the size of a worm or of a moun- tain . It would be better to be born blind . We are then , perhaps , very wrong , when we say that our senses deceive us . Every one of our senses per ...
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