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... true history alike from legend and from wilful invention , and also to under- stand the nature of historical authorities and to weigh one statement against another . Here again the difficulty is not at all with the child , but wholly ...
... true history alike from legend and from wilful invention , and also to under- stand the nature of historical authorities and to weigh one statement against another . Here again the difficulty is not at all with the child , but wholly ...
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... true history . These tales ought to be known , if only because they have usurped the place of true history . They ought also in many cases to be known , sometimes on account of their real beauty , sometimes as excellent studies for the ...
... true history . These tales ought to be known , if only because they have usurped the place of true history . They ought also in many cases to be known , sometimes on account of their real beauty , sometimes as excellent studies for the ...
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... true life of a tongue , those without which we could not get on at all , are the same in German and in Eng- lish , and are quite unlike French . You can make many sentences together about common things which shall not have one French or ...
... true life of a tongue , those without which we could not get on at all , are the same in German and in Eng- lish , and are quite unlike French . You can make many sentences together about common things which shall not have one French or ...
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... true , the people who founded the first lasting Teutonic kingdom in Britain were neither the Angles nor the Saxons , but the Jutes . We cannot say much for certain about the English Conquest , because no account of it could well be ...
... true , the people who founded the first lasting Teutonic kingdom in Britain were neither the Angles nor the Saxons , but the Jutes . We cannot say much for certain about the English Conquest , because no account of it could well be ...
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... true that the horse is the badge of Kent , as you may see to this day on any sack of Kentish hops ; but I do not see why men should not be called Hengest and Horsa as much as Wolf , Lion , and Bear , or Bull and Lamb and Stag , as many ...
... true that the horse is the badge of Kent , as you may see to this day on any sack of Kentish hops ; but I do not see why men should not be called Hengest and Horsa as much as Wolf , Lion , and Bear , or Bull and Lamb and Stag , as many ...
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