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... never visited Carnac , but it is well known that it lies upon the very edge of the wild and stormy coast of Britanny , almost at the farthest point of the western peninsula of France . The Country thereabout is bleak and desolate ...
... never visited Carnac , but it is well known that it lies upon the very edge of the wild and stormy coast of Britanny , almost at the farthest point of the western peninsula of France . The Country thereabout is bleak and desolate ...
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... never quite completed , may have been designed to be ) one thousand in each row- making in all eleven thousand . The whole might thus be intended ( according to the character and religious feeling of the people and the times ) to be a ...
... never quite completed , may have been designed to be ) one thousand in each row- making in all eleven thousand . The whole might thus be intended ( according to the character and religious feeling of the people and the times ) to be a ...
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... never strong , had totally failed . It was now that her attached partner exerted her energies in all the offices of love and duty for her blind companion , over whom she tenderly watched like an angel of mercy . It was not long ...
... never strong , had totally failed . It was now that her attached partner exerted her energies in all the offices of love and duty for her blind companion , over whom she tenderly watched like an angel of mercy . It was not long ...
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... never known such relations , or possessed such advan- tages — a much more melancholy , as well as more exact statement , if W. P.'s theory is correct . I may observe en passant that , in whatever OF DR . SYNTAX . " ( 4th S. iii . 545 ...
... never known such relations , or possessed such advan- tages — a much more melancholy , as well as more exact statement , if W. P.'s theory is correct . I may observe en passant that , in whatever OF DR . SYNTAX . " ( 4th S. iii . 545 ...
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... never call their places of worship churches . They are always called " temples . " The Catholics say that such a name is paganish , but the response always given is that the " church " is the congregation , and not the building where ...
... never call their places of worship churches . They are always called " temples . " The Catholics say that such a name is paganish , but the response always given is that the " church " is the congregation , and not the building where ...
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