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... doubt that some M. Sequier may have written an account of Auxerre . The only St. Maxima I can find is one martyred in Africa A.D. 258. There may have been another subsequently , as St. Ger- main died at Ravenna and was brought back to ...
... doubt that some M. Sequier may have written an account of Auxerre . The only St. Maxima I can find is one martyred in Africa A.D. 258. There may have been another subsequently , as St. Ger- main died at Ravenna and was brought back to ...
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... doubt , was the place actually visited by the king . The present King's Head Inn , West Street , was not even known as the George until 1754 , while that now known by that sign is evidently the third house of the name . " " It is ...
... doubt , was the place actually visited by the king . The present King's Head Inn , West Street , was not even known as the George until 1754 , while that now known by that sign is evidently the third house of the name . " " It is ...
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... doubt that they will be welcome to many who have neither the inclination nor the leisure to become collectors of Bartolozzi . As to the illustrations in Mr. Tuer's volumes , they are certainly not very numerous , but they are choice ...
... doubt that they will be welcome to many who have neither the inclination nor the leisure to become collectors of Bartolozzi . As to the illustrations in Mr. Tuer's volumes , they are certainly not very numerous , but they are choice ...
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... doubt that the reading is peciam , the roll being a little torn , and Dugdale's copyist having missed the tail of the p as well as mistaken the a for u ; so that in " nocium " we have a word of the same class as that to which Mr. Knight ...
... doubt that the reading is peciam , the roll being a little torn , and Dugdale's copyist having missed the tail of the p as well as mistaken the a for u ; so that in " nocium " we have a word of the same class as that to which Mr. Knight ...
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... doubt of what you say about David to curry favour , he made himself a greater rascal than he was . Depend upon what I tell you ; -the king un- derstood that he had found out the secret by his own cunning and activity . As it is ...
... doubt of what you say about David to curry favour , he made himself a greater rascal than he was . Depend upon what I tell you ; -the king un- derstood that he had found out the secret by his own cunning and activity . As it is ...
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