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... quoted in that connexion : - " Feu mon pere , homme pour n'estre aydé que de l'experience et du naturel , d'un jugement bien net , m'a dict aultrefois qu'il avoit desiré mettre en train qu'il y eust ez villes certain lieu designé ...
... quoted in that connexion : - " Feu mon pere , homme pour n'estre aydé que de l'experience et du naturel , d'un jugement bien net , m'a dict aultrefois qu'il avoit desiré mettre en train qu'il y eust ez villes certain lieu designé ...
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... quoted by MR . HEBB it would seem that Th . Gautier was simply using the German word römer ; to suggest that he invented the word is , of course , ridiculous . Norwich . JAMES HOOper . " ALTAR GATES " ( 8th S. xi . 308 , 396 ) .— It is ...
... quoted by MR . HEBB it would seem that Th . Gautier was simply using the German word römer ; to suggest that he invented the word is , of course , ridiculous . Norwich . JAMES HOOper . " ALTAR GATES " ( 8th S. xi . 308 , 396 ) .— It is ...
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... quoted . R. MARSHAM - TOWNSHEND . I have lived in Devonshire and Cornwall , but I creature " ; and I have also lived in Italy , where it never heard , in either county , the expression " care is not unusual for women to be spoken of ...
... quoted . R. MARSHAM - TOWNSHEND . I have lived in Devonshire and Cornwall , but I creature " ; and I have also lived in Italy , where it never heard , in either county , the expression " care is not unusual for women to be spoken of ...
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... quoted , it must be ren- dered " glove . " It is further stated that the ancient and modern Rabbins agree in rendering the word from the original as " glove , " and that Joel Levy , a celebrated German translator , gave , instead of ...
... quoted , it must be ren- dered " glove . " It is further stated that the ancient and modern Rabbins agree in rendering the word from the original as " glove , " and that Joel Levy , a celebrated German translator , gave , instead of ...
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... ( quoted from ' Myv . Arch . , ' i . 174 , in the notes to the Mabinogion ' ) : - Hast thou heard what Creiddylad sang , The daughter of Lludd , the constant maiden ? and in the tale of ' Kilhwch and Olwen , ' the latter is invoked as ...
... ( quoted from ' Myv . Arch . , ' i . 174 , in the notes to the Mabinogion ' ) : - Hast thou heard what Creiddylad sang , The daughter of Lludd , the constant maiden ? and in the tale of ' Kilhwch and Olwen , ' the latter is invoked as ...
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