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... existed to any great extent . The author of these sketches of the past is not aware that any of her subjects has yet appeared in an English dress . Circumstances twice led her to arrest a wandering course for a season near public ...
... existed to any great extent . The author of these sketches of the past is not aware that any of her subjects has yet appeared in an English dress . Circumstances twice led her to arrest a wandering course for a season near public ...
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... existed at York- others de- corated with designs in fresco by the hands of Holbein and his pupils . The roof of the cathedral — the Rathhaus , or Hôtel - de - ville , a Burgundian build- ing of imposing appearance , and many of the old ...
... existed at York- others de- corated with designs in fresco by the hands of Holbein and his pupils . The roof of the cathedral — the Rathhaus , or Hôtel - de - ville , a Burgundian build- ing of imposing appearance , and many of the old ...
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... existed in almost all feudal castles , and the authorised use of torture everywhere , will induce the traveller and historian to applaud , with the philosophic Gibbon , " the merit and happiness of his own time . " Gothic , and forms a ...
... existed in almost all feudal castles , and the authorised use of torture everywhere , will induce the traveller and historian to applaud , with the philosophic Gibbon , " the merit and happiness of his own time . " Gothic , and forms a ...
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... the differ- ent conventual orders themselves , than any other cause . Of these Bâsle had already several within her bosom ; and at Minder - Bâsle there also existed two VOL . I. D communities , one of which , the brother - preachers.
... the differ- ent conventual orders themselves , than any other cause . Of these Bâsle had already several within her bosom ; and at Minder - Bâsle there also existed two VOL . I. D communities , one of which , the brother - preachers.
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... existed at Berne ( Nicholas Manuel , 1516 ) . The church of the Dominicans is now appropriated to the worship of the French Protestants , and the Rev. Philip • HORRORS OF THE PLAGUE . 77 But the sufferings of 76 THE NUNS ' WAR .
... existed at Berne ( Nicholas Manuel , 1516 ) . The church of the Dominicans is now appropriated to the worship of the French Protestants , and the Rev. Philip • HORRORS OF THE PLAGUE . 77 But the sufferings of 76 THE NUNS ' WAR .
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