Cavour and GaribaldiG. Manwaring, (Succ. to J. Chapman), 1861 - 30 pages |
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... tion . This queen , if we may credit the received tradition , once became the temporary guest of the great astronomer , Tycho Brahe . Designing but a brief visit to the illustrious philoso- pher , she was detained some days at his ...
... tion . This queen , if we may credit the received tradition , once became the temporary guest of the great astronomer , Tycho Brahe . Designing but a brief visit to the illustrious philoso- pher , she was detained some days at his ...
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... tion of their authorship . Of course it is quite impossible even to conjecture who were the individual composers . But Dr. Prior , Oehlenschläger , N. M. Petersen , and other critics , are of opinion that their generic authorship can be ...
... tion of their authorship . Of course it is quite impossible even to conjecture who were the individual composers . But Dr. Prior , Oehlenschläger , N. M. Petersen , and other critics , are of opinion that their generic authorship can be ...
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... tion is thus afforded , that the favourite younger son and the un- popular elder brother of these poems , are really creations of the maternal mind , which magnifies the virtues of one child , because he had the grace to be born last ...
... tion is thus afforded , that the favourite younger son and the un- popular elder brother of these poems , are really creations of the maternal mind , which magnifies the virtues of one child , because he had the grace to be born last ...
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... tion , however , is scornfully rejected by Dr. Prior , who substitutes for the " little cockney park " of the learned professor , the green- wood of our own ballads , -a coppice of small trees and bushes , through which a horseman could ...
... tion , however , is scornfully rejected by Dr. Prior , who substitutes for the " little cockney park " of the learned professor , the green- wood of our own ballads , -a coppice of small trees and bushes , through which a horseman could ...
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... tion of a sufficient quantity of concentrated alcohol into the stomach acts through its nerves , like a blow upon the epigastrium , so as to produce a shock to the nervous centres , the effect is due to the absorption of the alcohol ...
... tion of a sufficient quantity of concentrated alcohol into the stomach acts through its nerves , like a blow upon the epigastrium , so as to produce a shock to the nervous centres , the effect is due to the absorption of the alcohol ...
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