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... carry off the mountain drainage in the rainy season , as they cleave their way through the limestone rocks . The geographical features of such a country as this would of themselves lead us to suppose that the habitable parts would be ...
... carry off the mountain drainage in the rainy season , as they cleave their way through the limestone rocks . The geographical features of such a country as this would of themselves lead us to suppose that the habitable parts would be ...
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... carried back to a time pre- ceding the dispersion of the Aryan tribes . It has , therefore , in strictness of speech , nothing to do with Greek history . Among traditions for which a large credit has been claimed the legend which ...
... carried back to a time pre- ceding the dispersion of the Aryan tribes . It has , therefore , in strictness of speech , nothing to do with Greek history . Among traditions for which a large credit has been claimed the legend which ...
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... carried to the Oriental a sense of unseemliness and shame . Above all , with him this respect for the person was accompanied by a moral self - respect which no adverse conditions could ever wholly extinguish . Looking at these points of ...
... carried to the Oriental a sense of unseemliness and shame . Above all , with him this respect for the person was accompanied by a moral self - respect which no adverse conditions could ever wholly extinguish . Looking at these points of ...
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... carry equal weight with that of the wealthiest and most powerful of his fellows . But if equal among themselves , in ... carried with it the signs of its speedy decay ; and when an Hellenic dynasty was set aside and an oligarchy set up ...
... carry equal weight with that of the wealthiest and most powerful of his fellows . But if equal among themselves , in ... carried with it the signs of its speedy decay ; and when an Hellenic dynasty was set aside and an oligarchy set up ...
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... carried on the dolphin's back from the Italian seas to Tainaron is a worthy pendent of the legends of Lykophron and Melissa . We need only to note further that this rigid ruler or bloodthirsty murderer is in other legends ranked among ...
... carried on the dolphin's back from the Italian seas to Tainaron is a worthy pendent of the legends of Lykophron and Melissa . We need only to note further that this rigid ruler or bloodthirsty murderer is in other legends ranked among ...
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