Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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... called deep thought . It was generally assumed that learning must be something much deeper than ordinary forms of thinking , and into this error ran almost the entire flock of intellectual men in Egypt , Arabia , Asia , and afterward ...
... called deep thought . It was generally assumed that learning must be something much deeper than ordinary forms of thinking , and into this error ran almost the entire flock of intellectual men in Egypt , Arabia , Asia , and afterward ...
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... called the Sea and the Woods . The Sea and the Woods had a fight . The fight lasted nearly a thousand years and then the Woods beat the Sea . While Cæsar was making enormous raids into Gaul he came upon one popu- lous tribe that ...
... called the Sea and the Woods . The Sea and the Woods had a fight . The fight lasted nearly a thousand years and then the Woods beat the Sea . While Cæsar was making enormous raids into Gaul he came upon one popu- lous tribe that ...
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David Swing. Belge were only a fair sample of that human swarm that was called Germans , Gauls , Celts , or Helvetii at the varying wish of the historian or the poet . These numberless Gauls built good houses of wood and stone mixed ...
David Swing. Belge were only a fair sample of that human swarm that was called Germans , Gauls , Celts , or Helvetii at the varying wish of the historian or the poet . These numberless Gauls built good houses of wood and stone mixed ...
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David Swing. To This form of literature filled up the deep valley now called the dark ages . reach such a mental and moral condition the world had flung away the grandeur of Greek and Roman thought . When the student reads Sophocles and ...
David Swing. To This form of literature filled up the deep valley now called the dark ages . reach such a mental and moral condition the world had flung away the grandeur of Greek and Roman thought . When the student reads Sophocles and ...
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... called the novel - not this poppy , for the sermon is the true poppy of literature - this rose rises up before you and asks if you can tell the source of its gorgeous coloring . doing this it is necessary to go back . In First , having ...
... called the novel - not this poppy , for the sermon is the true poppy of literature - this rose rises up before you and asks if you can tell the source of its gorgeous coloring . doing this it is necessary to go back . In First , having ...
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