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... thing . Still the nil admirari of Horace is not the predominant rule of Monsieur TAINE'S book . What , above all , is remarkable in it , is the admirable way in which the influence of climate on Art and artists is described and even com ...
... thing . Still the nil admirari of Horace is not the predominant rule of Monsieur TAINE'S book . What , above all , is remarkable in it , is the admirable way in which the influence of climate on Art and artists is described and even com ...
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... things , the first " stories of the first crusade . Godfrey of Bouillon cleaves a Saracen to the middle . In Palestine , a widow who was not sixty years old , was obliged to marry , because no fief could re- main without a defender . A ...
... things , the first " stories of the first crusade . Godfrey of Bouillon cleaves a Saracen to the middle . In Palestine , a widow who was not sixty years old , was obliged to marry , because no fief could re- main without a defender . A ...
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... things : I. not to be killed ; 2. to have a good dress of hides ( Note by the Author ) . II roman ] The Romance lan- guage . This name is given to the language which , after the invasions of the barbarians and the fall of the Roman ...
... things : I. not to be killed ; 2. to have a good dress of hides ( Note by the Author ) . II roman ] The Romance lan- guage . This name is given to the language which , after the invasions of the barbarians and the fall of the Roman ...
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... thing , Un manche is a handle , a stick , a knuckle - bone . 15 Picardie ] Picardy , a former province in the north of France , was conquered in the fifth century by Clovis , who made of Amiens his capital . After having for many years ...
... thing , Un manche is a handle , a stick , a knuckle - bone . 15 Picardie ] Picardy , a former province in the north of France , was conquered in the fifth century by Clovis , who made of Amiens his capital . After having for many years ...
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... thing unusual , " says Angus in his " Handbook of English Literature , " " that a miracle - play , or mystery , as it was called , on the story of St. Catherine , was performed at Dun- stable at the beginning of the twelfth century ...
... thing unusual , " says Angus in his " Handbook of English Literature , " " that a miracle - play , or mystery , as it was called , on the story of St. Catherine , was performed at Dun- stable at the beginning of the twelfth century ...
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