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... seems that Milton did not send the volume of aliis nostris in bibliotheca publica reponeret , ode . " 1645 till a copy of it had been requested ; no evi- dence , certainly , of old friendship ! I admit the probability that Wotton and ...
... seems that Milton did not send the volume of aliis nostris in bibliotheca publica reponeret , ode . " 1645 till a copy of it had been requested ; no evi- dence , certainly , of old friendship ! I admit the probability that Wotton and ...
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... seem equally well acquainted with , the entire life of their de- ceased friend . It would not be easy to find a work more clumsy in conception and tasteless in execution . Herr von Birken seems to have been a prosperous man , and to ...
... seem equally well acquainted with , the entire life of their de- ceased friend . It would not be easy to find a work more clumsy in conception and tasteless in execution . Herr von Birken seems to have been a prosperous man , and to ...
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... seems to have been a boundary - stone , made in a pyramidal shape the origin of the singular expression pirula nasi , as being something at the extremity . Another supposition is , that the word perla is derived from the Latin perula ...
... seems to have been a boundary - stone , made in a pyramidal shape the origin of the singular expression pirula nasi , as being something at the extremity . Another supposition is , that the word perla is derived from the Latin perula ...
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... seems , however , to be the true one ; namely , that the common word for an onion , growing in a single bulb , was transferred to the pearl ( Exercit . Plin . , pp . 822-4 .; Columella de R. R. xii . 10. ) . The ancient meaning of unio ...
... seems , however , to be the true one ; namely , that the common word for an onion , growing in a single bulb , was transferred to the pearl ( Exercit . Plin . , pp . 822-4 .; Columella de R. R. xii . 10. ) . The ancient meaning of unio ...
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... seems to act equally well either when damp or when kept for many hours , and I have found it good for more than a week . The time for exposure must entirely depend upon the degree of light . In two minutes and a half a good picture may ...
... seems to act equally well either when damp or when kept for many hours , and I have found it good for more than a week . The time for exposure must entirely depend upon the degree of light . In two minutes and a half a good picture may ...
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