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... SOCIETY OF ANCIENT NORTHERN TEXTS ( 1865-1885 ) , DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ANTIQUITIES THE ETHNOGRAPHICAL MUSEUM AND THE ROSENBORG CASTLE IN COPENHAGEN , GRAND CROSS OF THE DANNEBROG , ETC. ETC. TRANSLATED , WITH A BRIEF ...
... SOCIETY OF ANCIENT NORTHERN TEXTS ( 1865-1885 ) , DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ANTIQUITIES THE ETHNOGRAPHICAL MUSEUM AND THE ROSENBORG CASTLE IN COPENHAGEN , GRAND CROSS OF THE DANNEBROG , ETC. ETC. TRANSLATED , WITH A BRIEF ...
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... Society , the author's most intimate friend and assistant , for permission to use his memorial address delivered in November last before the Society.1 To him I am gratefully indebted for several corrections and explanations of ...
... Society , the author's most intimate friend and assistant , for permission to use his memorial address delivered in November last before the Society.1 To him I am gratefully indebted for several corrections and explanations of ...
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... Society : " Why , when a bowl be filled with water to the brim , and fish placed therein , does not the water run over ? " Whereupon there arose a mighty cudgelling of wits and babble of learning . When each , according to his favourite ...
... Society : " Why , when a bowl be filled with water to the brim , and fish placed therein , does not the water run over ? " Whereupon there arose a mighty cudgelling of wits and babble of learning . When each , according to his favourite ...
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... he and his countrymen main- 1 In his memorial address on Worsaae , delivered before the Anthro- pological Society in Berlin , October 1885 . tained . Not merely did they carefully abstain from every xviii MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR .
... he and his countrymen main- 1 In his memorial address on Worsaae , delivered before the Anthro- pological Society in Berlin , October 1885 . tained . Not merely did they carefully abstain from every xviii MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR .
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... Society of Ancient Northern Texts . In the perform- ance of these duties his winning manner and fine pre- sence no less than his vast learning made him signally successful . Still wider was the influence he exercised at the ...
... Society of Ancient Northern Texts . In the perform- ance of these duties his winning manner and fine pre- sence no less than his vast learning made him signally successful . Still wider was the influence he exercised at the ...
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