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... ancient castle , a vast mass of thick walls , towers , and turrets . It has a considerable suburb on the left bank of the Marne , the communication between them being kept up by a handsome stone bridge of three arches . It has a court ...
... ancient castle , a vast mass of thick walls , towers , and turrets . It has a considerable suburb on the left bank of the Marne , the communication between them being kept up by a handsome stone bridge of three arches . It has a court ...
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... ancient spirit and implacable enmity to the infidels . ' In the above passage , the order of time is strictly maintained . Solyman's success against Belgrade is mentioned as the immediate cause of the attack on Rhodes . We are then ...
... ancient spirit and implacable enmity to the infidels . ' In the above passage , the order of time is strictly maintained . Solyman's success against Belgrade is mentioned as the immediate cause of the attack on Rhodes . We are then ...
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... ancient and modern . It is well known that Philip of Macedon was more afraid of the thunder of Demosthenes ' elo- quence than of the whole collective power of the Athenian people . And there are persons still living who ARGUMENT . 93 ...
... ancient and modern . It is well known that Philip of Macedon was more afraid of the thunder of Demosthenes ' elo- quence than of the whole collective power of the Athenian people . And there are persons still living who ARGUMENT . 93 ...
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... Ancient Greece produced many great dramatists . 13. The results of some battles have been particularly important . 14. The drama is an early form of literature . 15. All literary nations have had their fabulists . 16. Literature ...
... Ancient Greece produced many great dramatists . 13. The results of some battles have been particularly important . 14. The drama is an early form of literature . 15. All literary nations have had their fabulists . 16. Literature ...
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... ancient * classics . 4. Why is this study so strongly recommended ? 5. Why should book - knowledge be superior to many other forms ? 6. Who are the most learned people in Europe ? and for what are we indebted to them ? 7. To what ...
... ancient * classics . 4. Why is this study so strongly recommended ? 5. Why should book - knowledge be superior to many other forms ? 6. Who are the most learned people in Europe ? and for what are we indebted to them ? 7. To what ...
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Page 305 - ... comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music.