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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... natural head , but they were proud to regard themselves as his personal servants , and formed the household , which was known as the Oeрareía in Hellenistic times . Earlier kings had adopted the practice of bringing to court noble ...
... natural head , but they were proud to regard themselves as his personal servants , and formed the household , which was known as the Oeрareía in Hellenistic times . Earlier kings had adopted the practice of bringing to court noble ...
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... natural or savage man reproduced with artificial improvements . Alexander took the Macedonian side strongly against the Greek in these matters . He is said to have retorted upon the people who advised him to run in the sprint race at ...
... natural or savage man reproduced with artificial improvements . Alexander took the Macedonian side strongly against the Greek in these matters . He is said to have retorted upon the people who advised him to run in the sprint race at ...
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... nature of his theory , he can have known little of the great Aryan barons of Bactriana or Sogdiana , who had for centuries looked on the Greek adventurers they met as the Romans did in later days . But Alexander belongs to a different ...
... nature of his theory , he can have known little of the great Aryan barons of Bactriana or Sogdiana , who had for centuries looked on the Greek adventurers they met as the Romans did in later days . But Alexander belongs to a different ...
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... nature , and be a woman again , but after that she shall not live long . And it is not long since a knight of Rhodes , who was bold and doughty in arms , said that he would kiss her ; when he was upon his courser and went to the castle ...
... nature , and be a woman again , but after that she shall not live long . And it is not long since a knight of Rhodes , who was bold and doughty in arms , said that he would kiss her ; when he was upon his courser and went to the castle ...
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... natural shape , and he shall be lord of all the countries and isles above said . And know well that , after what I may perceive and under- stand , the lands of Prester John , emperor of India , are under us ; for in going from Scotland ...
... natural shape , and he shall be lord of all the countries and isles above said . And know well that , after what I may perceive and under- stand , the lands of Prester John , emperor of India , are under us ; for in going from Scotland ...
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