Quarterly Review, Volume 37, Issue 73John Murray, 1828 - 590 pages |
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... supposed to exist , the overlapping of headlands having concealed them from the coasting navigator . Many great rivers , we have no doubt , will yet be found to exist on the northern and north - eastern coasts - were it otherwise , this ...
... supposed to exist , the overlapping of headlands having concealed them from the coasting navigator . Many great rivers , we have no doubt , will yet be found to exist on the northern and north - eastern coasts - were it otherwise , this ...
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... supposed , all night away from the scene of his felony , found himself at daybreak within a few yards thereof , re - entered the house , confessed his guilt , restored the oboli , was whipt regularly every night afterwards by an ...
... supposed , all night away from the scene of his felony , found himself at daybreak within a few yards thereof , re - entered the house , confessed his guilt , restored the oboli , was whipt regularly every night afterwards by an ...
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... supposed to entertain and propagate . John of Gaunt , who patronised Wickliffe , patronised them . Minstrels were ever upon the stroll from abbey to abbey and from hamlet to hamlet , retailing their own adventures , or the wonders they ...
... supposed to entertain and propagate . John of Gaunt , who patronised Wickliffe , patronised them . Minstrels were ever upon the stroll from abbey to abbey and from hamlet to hamlet , retailing their own adventures , or the wonders they ...
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... supposed : - ' Qui son gli eresiarche Co ' lor seguaci d'ogni setta , e mollo Pił , che non credi , son le tombe carche .'- Infern . ix . Thus were the doctrines which they call heresy , ' ready at all times , as it were , to be slipped ...
... supposed : - ' Qui son gli eresiarche Co ' lor seguaci d'ogni setta , e mollo Pił , che non credi , son le tombe carche .'- Infern . ix . Thus were the doctrines which they call heresy , ' ready at all times , as it were , to be slipped ...
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... supposed that such an engine as the press would not be beyond his control ; there was now , indeed , no chance of letters becoming the private property of the priests , like the hie- roglyphics of Egypt , but he might still flatter ...
... supposed that such an engine as the press would not be beyond his control ; there was now , indeed , no chance of letters becoming the private property of the priests , like the hie- roglyphics of Egypt , but he might still flatter ...
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