The Pre-history of the North: Based on Contemporary MemorialsTrübner & Company, 1886 - 206 pages |
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... country . It is hoped that this modern instance , when compared with the chart on the progress of the various cultures , 2 Beilage zum Hamburgischen Correspondenten , 30th August 1885 . will throw some light on the facts and views set ...
... country . It is hoped that this modern instance , when compared with the chart on the progress of the various cultures , 2 Beilage zum Hamburgischen Correspondenten , 30th August 1885 . will throw some light on the facts and views set ...
Page ix
... country's pride . There- " " " Si monumentum quæris , circumspice . " The abbreviated references are chiefly to the author's Arts , " ie . " The Industrial Arts of Denmark : " also to C. P. B. - Corpus Poeticum Boreale , 2 vols . , ed ...
... country's pride . There- " " " Si monumentum quæris , circumspice . " The abbreviated references are chiefly to the author's Arts , " ie . " The Industrial Arts of Denmark : " also to C. P. B. - Corpus Poeticum Boreale , 2 vols . , ed ...
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... country . His wide sympathies with everything embraced in the word education , in its highest sense , procured for him the honour of a place as " Kultusminister " in the Cabinet of Fonnesbeck in 1874 ; but on its dissolution in the ...
... country . His wide sympathies with everything embraced in the word education , in its highest sense , procured for him the honour of a place as " Kultusminister " in the Cabinet of Fonnesbeck in 1874 ; but on its dissolution in the ...
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... country . His superiority in his treatise " On the Antiquities of Slesvig or South Jutland " was complete . But the victory of science was surpassed by his moral victory over such antagonists . To those who still sought his aid he was ...
... country . His superiority in his treatise " On the Antiquities of Slesvig or South Jutland " was complete . But the victory of science was surpassed by his moral victory over such antagonists . To those who still sought his aid he was ...
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... country and the world a rich legacy of work accomplished and a masterly sketch for the direction of future research . Denmark is justly proud of the world - wide reputation of Thorvaldsen . The visitor who enters the noble mausoleum ...
... country and the world a rich legacy of work accomplished and a masterly sketch for the direction of future research . Denmark is justly proud of the world - wide reputation of Thorvaldsen . The visitor who enters the noble mausoleum ...
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