The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 9G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... cause of this serious result . Modern historians are divided as regards Alexander into two classes , first , those like Grote , who regard him as a partly civilized barbarian , with a lust for conquest but with no ideas of organiza ...
... cause of this serious result . Modern historians are divided as regards Alexander into two classes , first , those like Grote , who regard him as a partly civilized barbarian , with a lust for conquest but with no ideas of organiza ...
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... cause , that Jesus , that was born on that night , that he would of his great mercy show some miracle , as he was come to be king of mankind , for to show some miracle who should be rightways king of this realm . So the Archbishop , by ...
... cause , that Jesus , that was born on that night , that he would of his great mercy show some miracle , as he was come to be king of mankind , for to show some miracle who should be rightways king of this realm . So the Archbishop , by ...
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... cause ? Sir , said Ector , for God will have it so , for there should never man have drawn out this sword but he that shall be rightways king of this land . Now let me see whether ye can put the sword there as it was , and pull it out ...
... cause ? Sir , said Ector , for God will have it so , for there should never man have drawn out this sword but he that shall be rightways king of this land . Now let me see whether ye can put the sword there as it was , and pull it out ...
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... causing disturbance at night in another person's house , who had effected an entrance by stealth , and who had blockaded the master himself in one of his own rooms , has all the appearance of an oppressor ; while in fact he was the ...
... causing disturbance at night in another person's house , who had effected an entrance by stealth , and who had blockaded the master himself in one of his own rooms , has all the appearance of an oppressor ; while in fact he was the ...
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... causes of fear , she feared even for her modesty - not such modesty as arises from the sad knowledge of evil , but for that which is ignorant of its own existence ; - like the dread of a child who trembles in the dark , he knows not why ...
... causes of fear , she feared even for her modesty - not such modesty as arises from the sad knowledge of evil , but for that which is ignorant of its own existence ; - like the dread of a child who trembles in the dark , he knows not why ...
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