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... fall of the Roman empire , when each European tribe was left to establish its own government , their several original languages , more or less impregnated by the Latin of their former masters , be- gan to receive their natural and ...
... fall of the Roman empire , when each European tribe was left to establish its own government , their several original languages , more or less impregnated by the Latin of their former masters , be- gan to receive their natural and ...
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... fall before her flat , And worship her as goddesse of the wood ; And old Sylvanus selfe bethinkes not , what To thinke of wight so fayre ; but gazing stood In doubt to deeme her borne of earthly brood : 1 A support . Sometimes dame ...
... fall before her flat , And worship her as goddesse of the wood ; And old Sylvanus selfe bethinkes not , what To thinke of wight so fayre ; but gazing stood In doubt to deeme her borne of earthly brood : 1 A support . Sometimes dame ...
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... fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet , Now soft , now loud , unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all . RICHARD HOOKER . Richard Hooker , an eminent divine , was born near Exeter , in 1553 , and ...
... fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet , Now soft , now loud , unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all . RICHARD HOOKER . Richard Hooker , an eminent divine , was born near Exeter , in 1553 , and ...
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... falling , the very steps and inflections every way , the turns and varieties of all passions whereunto the mind is subject ; yea , so to imitate them , that , whether it resemble unto us the same state wherein our minds already are , or ...
... falling , the very steps and inflections every way , the turns and varieties of all passions whereunto the mind is subject ; yea , so to imitate them , that , whether it resemble unto us the same state wherein our minds already are , or ...
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... fall those words in a man's own name which he would have another man learn and use , and there- upon take advantage . I know two that were competitors for the secretary's place , in Queen Elizabeth's time , and yet kept good quarter ...
... fall those words in a man's own name which he would have another man learn and use , and there- upon take advantage . I know two that were competitors for the secretary's place , in Queen Elizabeth's time , and yet kept good quarter ...
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