The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Том 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 стор. |
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... natural impression that it is of native growth . From what native word , if any , the Roman author latinised it , or whether it was coined out of some mere caprice , are now vain questions , on which the expounders of true history had ...
... natural impression that it is of native growth . From what native word , if any , the Roman author latinised it , or whether it was coined out of some mere caprice , are now vain questions , on which the expounders of true history had ...
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... natural scenery , yet cannot be reconciled to natural conditions , which will nowhere show us a succession of such curves running straight onwards in parallel lines out of all harmony or co- operation with watercourses and other natural ...
... natural scenery , yet cannot be reconciled to natural conditions , which will nowhere show us a succession of such curves running straight onwards in parallel lines out of all harmony or co- operation with watercourses and other natural ...
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... natural line of contest when the north and the south were divided : many a history written by a Lollius Urbicus , not now known to exist . It is a history of his own time ; and from the way in which it is referred to , it would seem to ...
... natural line of contest when the north and the south were divided : many a history written by a Lollius Urbicus , not now known to exist . It is a history of his own time ; and from the way in which it is referred to , it would seem to ...
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... natural feature in the rendering of them . The author pleads , moreover , for some toleration of discursiveness in these earlier chapters , since the materials whence they are extracted , however interesting and exciting to the ...
... natural feature in the rendering of them . The author pleads , moreover , for some toleration of discursiveness in these earlier chapters , since the materials whence they are extracted , however interesting and exciting to the ...
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... natural , perhaps , that a progressive people should have an enthusiastic admira- tion for these testimonies to a civilisation much higher than their own . It must have been in some respects a mortifying homage , yet infinitely more ...
... natural , perhaps , that a progressive people should have an enthusiastic admira- tion for these testimonies to a civilisation much higher than their own . It must have been in some respects a mortifying homage , yet infinitely more ...
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Сторінка 11 - Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, et. mare scrutantur : si locuples hostis est, avari ; si pauper, ambitiosi : quos non Oriens, non Occidens, satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium ; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.