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... less interesting and less beautiful than those which the ancient world and the Middle Ages have bequeathed to us . Posterity will not greatly care to investigate or preserve the ruins of our rail- way stations and town halls . I need ...
... less interesting and less beautiful than those which the ancient world and the Middle Ages have bequeathed to us . Posterity will not greatly care to investigate or preserve the ruins of our rail- way stations and town halls . I need ...
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... less actual , but not less historical significance . What is the weight to be attached to cultural similarities as an evidence of the contact - direct or indirect - of peoples in the past ? Does the recurrence in Mexico , for instance ...
... less actual , but not less historical significance . What is the weight to be attached to cultural similarities as an evidence of the contact - direct or indirect - of peoples in the past ? Does the recurrence in Mexico , for instance ...
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... less choice in his epithets than Jonson , we might well interpret the word here in the vaguely complimentary sense ; but when Jonson put his friend's character into prose what he said was : ' He was indeed honest and of an open and free ...
... less choice in his epithets than Jonson , we might well interpret the word here in the vaguely complimentary sense ; but when Jonson put his friend's character into prose what he said was : ' He was indeed honest and of an open and free ...
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