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... whole it is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons , Jutes , or Frisians , coming from one place and genetically identical , as it is an anthology of temperaments out of them all . Certain tempera- ments suit the ...
... whole it is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons , Jutes , or Frisians , coming from one place and genetically identical , as it is an anthology of temperaments out of them all . Certain tempera- ments suit the ...
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... whole bust is well formed , and there is a tendency to stout and powerful frames . I re- marked the stoutness on my first landing at Liver- pool ; porter , drayman , coachman , guard , what substantial , respectable , grandfatherly ...
... whole bust is well formed , and there is a tendency to stout and powerful frames . I re- marked the stoutness on my first landing at Liver- pool ; porter , drayman , coachman , guard , what substantial , respectable , grandfatherly ...
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... whole fab- ric . The climate and geography , I said , were fac- titious , as if the hands of man had arranged the conditions . The same character pervades the whole kingdom . Bacon said , " Rome was a state not subject to paradoxes ...
... whole fab- ric . The climate and geography , I said , were fac- titious , as if the hands of man had arranged the conditions . The same character pervades the whole kingdom . Bacon said , " Rome was a state not subject to paradoxes ...
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... whole is Birminghamized , and we have a nation whose ex- istence is a work of art ; a cold , barren , almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful , luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth . - - Man in England submits to be a ...
... whole is Birminghamized , and we have a nation whose ex- istence is a work of art ; a cold , barren , almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful , luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth . - - Man in England submits to be a ...
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... whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform . Private men keep their promises , never so trivial . Down goes the flying word on the tablets , and is indelible as Domesday Book . Their practical power rests on their national sin ...
... whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform . Private men keep their promises , never so trivial . Down goes the flying word on the tablets , and is indelible as Domesday Book . Their practical power rests on their national sin ...
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