Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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... facts seem overlooked ; that Christ came just in time to find a Herod who would put to death all the babes in Bethlehem , so as to be sure of more true . killing the right one ; Christ came just in time 6 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
... facts seem overlooked ; that Christ came just in time to find a Herod who would put to death all the babes in Bethlehem , so as to be sure of more true . killing the right one ; Christ came just in time 6 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
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... fact that complaint was made against that king , that one of his wives was an Egyptian , it may be inferred that he was indebted to maritime transportation for not a few of his rare collection of female beauties . The sea offers cheap ...
... fact that complaint was made against that king , that one of his wives was an Egyptian , it may be inferred that he was indebted to maritime transportation for not a few of his rare collection of female beauties . The sea offers cheap ...
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... fact , fond of society ; not given to monastic life , not averse to marriage . Neither of them could cross a stream on her cloak ; and when they died no angels came to sit up with their marbleized faces . No halos of angels kept night ...
... fact , fond of society ; not given to monastic life , not averse to marriage . Neither of them could cross a stream on her cloak ; and when they died no angels came to sit up with their marbleized faces . No halos of angels kept night ...
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... facts . When an age possesses a literature , that literature will always reveal the condition of the separate times , and will explain each successive rise or fall . If we look back from our London to early Athens we perceive that ...
... facts . When an age possesses a literature , that literature will always reveal the condition of the separate times , and will explain each successive rise or fall . If we look back from our London to early Athens we perceive that ...
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... facts . But this mirror composed of liter- ature does not tell us all the particulars that once lay beneath . It catches only great out- lines of causes and results . It permits us to imagine through the dark ages great pencils of light ...
... facts . But this mirror composed of liter- ature does not tell us all the particulars that once lay beneath . It catches only great out- lines of causes and results . It permits us to imagine through the dark ages great pencils of light ...
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