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... appears from the date etched at the foot of the plate . I possess an admirable specimen . It bears a memorandum , in what I know to be the hand- writing of a gentleman then forty - six years of age , of the date of its acquisition ...
... appears from the date etched at the foot of the plate . I possess an admirable specimen . It bears a memorandum , in what I know to be the hand- writing of a gentleman then forty - six years of age , of the date of its acquisition ...
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... appears to belong properly to the name of Truslove . A grant of them , together with a crest , by way of augmentation , of a boy's head proper , crowned with a garland of bay leaves , and mantled gules , was made Feb. 10 , 1606 , to ...
... appears to belong properly to the name of Truslove . A grant of them , together with a crest , by way of augmentation , of a boy's head proper , crowned with a garland of bay leaves , and mantled gules , was made Feb. 10 , 1606 , to ...
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... appears to me ) between the human , if human they may be called , inhabitants of Brobdingnag and the animal crea ... appear to be from sixty to seventy feet high , that is , from ten to twelve times the height of an ordinary man , and ...
... appears to me ) between the human , if human they may be called , inhabitants of Brobdingnag and the animal crea ... appear to be from sixty to seventy feet high , that is , from ten to twelve times the height of an ordinary man , and ...
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... appear to. 66 p . 319 ) , the words " Bernardus monachus non vidit omnia " are written in one MS . of the Legende of ... appears to be unaware that Lord Macaulay at last hit upon the identical solution of P. M. A. C. F. which he gives ...
... appear to. 66 p . 319 ) , the words " Bernardus monachus non vidit omnia " are written in one MS . of the Legende of ... appears to be unaware that Lord Macaulay at last hit upon the identical solution of P. M. A. C. F. which he gives ...
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... appears to have changed with the various phases of development of their art . Pliny informs us that it originally consisted chiefly of dried figs , and that an athlete of the name of Pythagoras was the first who intro- duced the use of ...
... appears to have changed with the various phases of development of their art . Pliny informs us that it originally consisted chiefly of dried figs , and that an athlete of the name of Pythagoras was the first who intro- duced the use of ...
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