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... reference " ( a t ) which directs the reader to the note Leonides " is prefixed to the line " Ipse deus ...... , ' while there is no " reference " before the next quotation in verse : - .. 66 " " Servus Epictetus , mutilati corporis ...
... reference " ( a t ) which directs the reader to the note Leonides " is prefixed to the line " Ipse deus ...... , ' while there is no " reference " before the next quotation in verse : - .. 66 " " Servus Epictetus , mutilati corporis ...
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... references to any contemporary mention of this club . The date 1741 in MR . MAC- MICHAEL'S article is ( as I learn ... reference to strong drink . This is presumably merely a pun . But what is the date of Alderman Lushington's tenure ...
... references to any contemporary mention of this club . The date 1741 in MR . MAC- MICHAEL'S article is ( as I learn ... reference to strong drink . This is presumably merely a pun . But what is the date of Alderman Lushington's tenure ...
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... reference , ' Gentlemen of the House of full of word - portraits of almost all those who have to do with politics or the Court . He does not bore us with a long preface , but at once opens chap . i . by giving the words of welcome ...
... reference , ' Gentlemen of the House of full of word - portraits of almost all those who have to do with politics or the Court . He does not bore us with a long preface , but at once opens chap . i . by giving the words of welcome ...
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... reference to Temple Bar for May in the pre- sent year . In a striking story entitled ' A White Night ' is given an account of the burial alive of a nun in a Spanish church , which was unexpectedly witnessed by two English gentlemen and ...
... reference to Temple Bar for May in the pre- sent year . In a striking story entitled ' A White Night ' is given an account of the burial alive of a nun in a Spanish church , which was unexpectedly witnessed by two English gentlemen and ...
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... reference . I thought that his ' Voyage en Angleterre , ' & c . ( 1797 ) , would most likely contain the phrase , and have glanced through the book , but without finding it . If this were brought to the notice of the author of Chandos ...
... reference . I thought that his ' Voyage en Angleterre , ' & c . ( 1797 ) , would most likely contain the phrase , and have glanced through the book , but without finding it . If this were brought to the notice of the author of Chandos ...
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