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The precise period in which agriculture was introduced into Britain is not known ,
although Julius Cæsar has alleged that it was practised by some of the colonists
from Gaul who had settled in the southern part , about one hundred years before
...
The precise period in which agriculture was introduced into Britain is not known ,
although Julius Cæsar has alleged that it was practised by some of the colonists
from Gaul who had settled in the southern part , about one hundred years before
...
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When , however , the storm of the revolution blew over , the energies of the
people quietly sank down into the right channels , and since that period the
business of husbandry has been gradually advancing in this country . The aid of
science to ...
When , however , the storm of the revolution blew over , the energies of the
people quietly sank down into the right channels , and since that period the
business of husbandry has been gradually advancing in this country . The aid of
science to ...
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... source of support . “ The Goth , the Christian , time , war , flood , or fire , ” cannot
destroy it . To the earthquake alone will it yield . The glorious epoch of that
golden age which is to dawn upon the world , has been described as the period ...
... source of support . “ The Goth , the Christian , time , war , flood , or fire , ” cannot
destroy it . To the earthquake alone will it yield . The glorious epoch of that
golden age which is to dawn upon the world , has been described as the period ...
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This architecture of the middle ages exhibited a medley of the tragic and the
grotesque , of the gigantic and the graceful , like the poems and romances of the
same period . " The plants of our soil , the trees of our woods , the trefoil and the
oak ...
This architecture of the middle ages exhibited a medley of the tragic and the
grotesque , of the gigantic and the graceful , like the poems and romances of the
same period . " The plants of our soil , the trees of our woods , the trefoil and the
oak ...
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... because the Latin laboured long to maintain its supremacy , and was not
vanquished for many years after this period . It is this circumstance which makes
the name of Chaucer grateful to English ears . He fought manfully for his native
tongue ...
... because the Latin laboured long to maintain its supremacy , and was not
vanquished for many years after this period . It is this circumstance which makes
the name of Chaucer grateful to English ears . He fought manfully for his native
tongue ...
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| Title | American Quarterly Review, Volume 21 Volumes 298-301 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Editor | Robert Walsh |
| Publisher | Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2019 |
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