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... Italy . I have unfortunately mislaid my memo- randa on this subject , and have no regular roster of these occasional visitations to refer to , but I think my attention to this effect was first impressed on me by the season which ...
... Italy . I have unfortunately mislaid my memo- randa on this subject , and have no regular roster of these occasional visitations to refer to , but I think my attention to this effect was first impressed on me by the season which ...
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... Italian word divisa bore at the time of the Conquest its present meaning of " device , " in greater force than the sense of divisions or partitions , is it unreasonable to JAN . 1. 1853. ] 11 NOTES AND QUERIES . Eustache de Saint Pierre ...
... Italian word divisa bore at the time of the Conquest its present meaning of " device , " in greater force than the sense of divisions or partitions , is it unreasonable to JAN . 1. 1853. ] 11 NOTES AND QUERIES . Eustache de Saint Pierre ...
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... Italian form of pirum , the fruit of the pear , is pera ; the modern feminine noun being , as in numerous other cases , formed from the plural of the Latin neuter noun ( see Diez , ib . vol . ii . p . 19. ) . The analogy of unio ( to ...
... Italian form of pirum , the fruit of the pear , is pera ; the modern feminine noun being , as in numerous other cases , formed from the plural of the Latin neuter noun ( see Diez , ib . vol . ii . p . 19. ) . The analogy of unio ( to ...
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... Italy ; and when he met an active officer , Scipio , he was beaten on his own ground , Finally , forced to take refuge with a foreign power , he was there a pri- soner , and there he died . " " His administrative qualities seem to have ...
... Italy ; and when he met an active officer , Scipio , he was beaten on his own ground , Finally , forced to take refuge with a foreign power , he was there a pri- soner , and there he died . " " His administrative qualities seem to have ...
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... Italian ditto , the said . TOUCHSTONE . Music is sometimes engraved , sometimes printed from moveable types . J C. , who inquires whether Shelley first imagined the name Mab , has , we fear , never read Shakspeare's Romeo and Juliet ...
... Italian ditto , the said . TOUCHSTONE . Music is sometimes engraved , sometimes printed from moveable types . J C. , who inquires whether Shelley first imagined the name Mab , has , we fear , never read Shakspeare's Romeo and Juliet ...
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