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... some six hundred years ago , I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together . PUNNING Non equidem hoc studeo bullatis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescat , dare pondus idonea fumo .
... some six hundred years ago , I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together . PUNNING Non equidem hoc studeo bullatis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescat , dare pondus idonea fumo .
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Upon a more leisurely survey of it , I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches , with several broken arches , which , added to those that were entire , made up the number about a hundred .
Upon a more leisurely survey of it , I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches , with several broken arches , which , added to those that were entire , made up the number about a hundred .
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Some two hundred and fifty years after his death , Demetrius , one of the founders of the Alexandrine library , made a collection of such fables as had become attributed to Æsop . a THE FOX AND THE GRAPES A Fox , just at the time of the ...
Some two hundred and fifty years after his death , Demetrius , one of the founders of the Alexandrine library , made a collection of such fables as had become attributed to Æsop . a THE FOX AND THE GRAPES A Fox , just at the time of the ...
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Hecatæus , the Greek historian and geographer , who lived more than five hundred years before Christ , had not enlarged it much . He was , to be sure , a voyager on the Mediterranean , and had an idea of the extent of Italy .
Hecatæus , the Greek historian and geographer , who lived more than five hundred years before Christ , had not enlarged it much . He was , to be sure , a voyager on the Mediterranean , and had an idea of the extent of Italy .
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There is not only a great difference in the consistency of stratified material , but every variety in the thickness of the layers , from an inch , and even less , to those measuring from ten or twenty to one hundred feet and more in ...
There is not only a great difference in the consistency of stratified material , but every variety in the thickness of the layers , from an inch , and even less , to those measuring from ten or twenty to one hundred feet and more in ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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