The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 5Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1830 |
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... native place . Here it absolutely rained relations , according to his own expression : every other child had been held to the font by him , or in some remote degree claimed to be held a cousin . The crowds of kindred were amazing ; but ...
... native place . Here it absolutely rained relations , according to his own expression : every other child had been held to the font by him , or in some remote degree claimed to be held a cousin . The crowds of kindred were amazing ; but ...
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... native Rhine runs blood , not wine ; For cloistering there's nought but roystering ; Our bishoprics and abbacies Are shrunk , I ween , to very shabby sees ; From convent and from monast'ry The nuns are fled , the monks are gone astray ...
... native Rhine runs blood , not wine ; For cloistering there's nought but roystering ; Our bishoprics and abbacies Are shrunk , I ween , to very shabby sees ; From convent and from monast'ry The nuns are fled , the monks are gone astray ...
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... successfully amidst the stirred - up mass of society , asserted their native dignity and assumed their proper place . The public games , although of a f high and exciting nature , when their celebration occurred 114 Greek Romances .
... successfully amidst the stirred - up mass of society , asserted their native dignity and assumed their proper place . The public games , although of a f high and exciting nature , when their celebration occurred 114 Greek Romances .
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... native country , Syria , or perhaps Assyria , and repaired to Greece . At Antioch he studied rhetoric , which he taught afterwards in Gaul ; but in the sequel , giving himself up to philosophy , he resided at Athens . Rejecting all the ...
... native country , Syria , or perhaps Assyria , and repaired to Greece . At Antioch he studied rhetoric , which he taught afterwards in Gaul ; but in the sequel , giving himself up to philosophy , he resided at Athens . Rejecting all the ...
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... natives in the Per- sian language . When the army proceeded further to the west , they found on the shores of the Euxine the savage barbarians , who must be placed in a general class with the almost innumera- ble varieties of the ...
... natives in the Per- sian language . When the army proceeded further to the west , they found on the shores of the Euxine the savage barbarians , who must be placed in a general class with the almost innumera- ble varieties of the ...
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