The Academy, Volume 25J. Murray, 1884 - English literature |
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... regard of the dangerous antagonism which everywhere subsists between Arab and Copt ; to his frank and far - sighted ... regards the bone problem , it is to be re- membered that these Pharaonic " treasure- cities " were , in fact ...
... regard of the dangerous antagonism which everywhere subsists between Arab and Copt ; to his frank and far - sighted ... regards the bone problem , it is to be re- membered that these Pharaonic " treasure- cities " were , in fact ...
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... regard to Keats's warm worth reading . We hope he may some day or praise of Mrs. Tighe , I fear I have not made my ... regards the quantity of the word Hyperion , a note certainly might be of some interest ; but I fear the correct ...
... regard to Keats's warm worth reading . We hope he may some day or praise of Mrs. Tighe , I fear I have not made my ... regards the quantity of the word Hyperion , a note certainly might be of some interest ; but I fear the correct ...
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... regards Cronus as a late Greek myth , evolved to account for a supposed being named Cronus , who , again , was inferred ... regard it as a survival from the well- ascertained conditions of the savage intellect . These he would illustrate ...
... regards Cronus as a late Greek myth , evolved to account for a supposed being named Cronus , who , again , was inferred ... regard it as a survival from the well- ascertained conditions of the savage intellect . These he would illustrate ...
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... regards the vexed question of a mixed grammar . Every addition , therefore , to our knowledge of them is very acceptable ... regard to primitive Aryan phonology . The author finds that Armenian is not an Iranian dialect , as has been ...
... regards the vexed question of a mixed grammar . Every addition , therefore , to our knowledge of them is very acceptable ... regard to primitive Aryan phonology . The author finds that Armenian is not an Iranian dialect , as has been ...
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... regard to foreign Powers after the Peace of Versailles , her desire to form alliances , her wish to gain over either Russia or Austria , and her ill- placed and exaggerated jealousy of France . The paper was mainly occupied with an ...
... regard to foreign Powers after the Peace of Versailles , her desire to form alliances , her wish to gain over either Russia or Austria , and her ill- placed and exaggerated jealousy of France . The paper was mainly occupied with an ...
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