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... whole Pentateuch . There is now an almost complete agreement among scholars that it took its present form after the Exile of the Jews and before the return of Ezra , that is to say , between the years 600 B.C. and 450 B.C. The Law was ...
... whole Pentateuch . There is now an almost complete agreement among scholars that it took its present form after the Exile of the Jews and before the return of Ezra , that is to say , between the years 600 B.C. and 450 B.C. The Law was ...
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... whole overdone . He is a great dramatist , a great poet , so great that we can all of us find something that we want in him . And the search - if as aforesaid we will take a little trouble to learn his language and the method of his art ...
... whole overdone . He is a great dramatist , a great poet , so great that we can all of us find something that we want in him . And the search - if as aforesaid we will take a little trouble to learn his language and the method of his art ...
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... whole society for a whole season to talk like Mr. Mantalini , and to get the richest effects out of that rococo affectation , rather as Mr. P. G. Wodehouse gets the richest effects out of the limp language of Archie . But Dickens could ...
... whole society for a whole season to talk like Mr. Mantalini , and to get the richest effects out of that rococo affectation , rather as Mr. P. G. Wodehouse gets the richest effects out of the limp language of Archie . But Dickens could ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE FIRST BOOKS IN THE WORLD | 1 |
HOMER | 18 |
THE STORY OF THE BIВІ Е | 41 |
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