Letters to Dead AuthorsLongmans, Green, 1886 - 234 страница |
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... called Estheticism , are all , primarily , 1 1 I am informed that the Natural History of Young Ladies is attributed , by some writers , to another philosopher , the author of The Art of Pluck . due to want of humour . People discuss ...
... called Estheticism , are all , primarily , 1 1 I am informed that the Natural History of Young Ladies is attributed , by some writers , to another philosopher , the author of The Art of Pluck . due to want of humour . People discuss ...
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... called Thames : a great river and a laborious , but not to be likened to the River of Egypt . The mouth of this river , where I stepped out from my ship , is exceedingly foul and of an evil savour by reason of the city on the banks ...
... called Thames : a great river and a laborious , but not to be likened to the River of Egypt . The mouth of this river , where I stepped out from my ship , is exceedingly foul and of an evil savour by reason of the city on the banks ...
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... called the City of the Ford of the Ox . But whether Io , when she wore a cow's shape , had passed by that way in her wanderings , and thence comes the name of that city , I could not ( though I asked all men I met ) learn aught with ...
... called the City of the Ford of the Ox . But whether Io , when she wore a cow's shape , had passed by that way in her wanderings , and thence comes the name of that city , I could not ( though I asked all men I met ) learn aught with ...
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... called chub , which they catch ; but they do not eat it , for a certain sacred reason . Also there is a fish called trout , and this is the manner of his catching . They build for this purpose great dams of wood , which they call weirs ...
... called chub , which they catch ; but they do not eat it , for a certain sacred reason . Also there is a fish called trout , and this is the manner of his catching . They build for this purpose great dams of wood , which they call weirs ...
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... called Isis , after the name of the god- dess of the Egyptians . But whether the Britons brought the name from Egypt or whether the Egyptians took it from the Britons , not knowing I prefer not to say . But to me it seems that the ...
... called Isis , after the name of the god- dess of the Egyptians . But whether the Britons brought the name from Egypt or whether the Egyptians took it from the Britons , not knowing I prefer not to say . But to me it seems that the ...
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