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... probably but few specimens are in this country . As I happen to have spoken of the Giberti Press in a paper on graphy , XVth - XIXth Century , " read before the " Veronese Typo- Royal Society of Literature in 1874 , I may perhaps be ...
... probably but few specimens are in this country . As I happen to have spoken of the Giberti Press in a paper on graphy , XVth - XIXth Century , " read before the " Veronese Typo- Royal Society of Literature in 1874 , I may perhaps be ...
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... probably have done just the same . I should like to take this opportunity of calling attention again to the fact that a mass of MS . matter of Nogarola's composition , which formed part of the Saibante collection , is known to have ...
... probably have done just the same . I should like to take this opportunity of calling attention again to the fact that a mass of MS . matter of Nogarola's composition , which formed part of the Saibante collection , is known to have ...
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... Probably the chronicler is cor- rect ; for some reason it may have been incon- venient to remove Lord Hussey — who was , as we have seen , tried at Sleaford - to London . WILLIAM JOHN HARDY . this beautiful error from a second - hand ...
... Probably the chronicler is cor- rect ; for some reason it may have been incon- venient to remove Lord Hussey — who was , as we have seen , tried at Sleaford - to London . WILLIAM JOHN HARDY . this beautiful error from a second - hand ...
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... probably from its healing virtues , specially , it has been said , in puerperal cases- was anciently sacred to Freya , the Saxon Venus ? It is not at all unlikely , therefore , that this plant was used to shelter and sanction the loves ...
... probably from its healing virtues , specially , it has been said , in puerperal cases- was anciently sacred to Freya , the Saxon Venus ? It is not at all unlikely , therefore , that this plant was used to shelter and sanction the loves ...
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... probably means what is known here as " leaf fat " in a pig , and which commonly bears this name in the other animals which are killed for human food . Waykman , 406.- Before the reform of the municipal corporations 24 [ 6th 8. V. JAN ...
... probably means what is known here as " leaf fat " in a pig , and which commonly bears this name in the other animals which are killed for human food . Waykman , 406.- Before the reform of the municipal corporations 24 [ 6th 8. V. JAN ...
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