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... Royal Offering - Cathedrals - Berthold's Political Handkerchief ' -Lapp Folk - Tales , 13 - Snead - St . Malan - Scarron - Ver- non - Norfolk Song , 14 - Title of Novel - John Hamilton- Barum Missal - Shakspeare - Hide - Motion of the ...
... Royal Offering - Cathedrals - Berthold's Political Handkerchief ' -Lapp Folk - Tales , 13 - Snead - St . Malan - Scarron - Ver- non - Norfolk Song , 14 - Title of Novel - John Hamilton- Barum Missal - Shakspeare - Hide - Motion of the ...
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... Royal Library at Stockholm ; and here it appears in a different version from any of the preceding Lundblad , ' Svensk Plutark II . , ' Stockholm , 1826 , p . 95 , " An nescis , mi fili , quan- tillâ prudentiâ regitur orbis . " : in any ...
... Royal Library at Stockholm ; and here it appears in a different version from any of the preceding Lundblad , ' Svensk Plutark II . , ' Stockholm , 1826 , p . 95 , " An nescis , mi fili , quan- tillâ prudentiâ regitur orbis . " : in any ...
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... ROYAL OFFERING AT THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY ( 7th S. v . 369 ) .— I have a note to the effect that the gold , frankincense , and myrrh offered by Her Majesty are symbolized by coin of the realm , which she presents by deputy in three ...
... ROYAL OFFERING AT THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY ( 7th S. v . 369 ) .— I have a note to the effect that the gold , frankincense , and myrrh offered by Her Majesty are symbolized by coin of the realm , which she presents by deputy in three ...
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... royal line of Stuart as Fitz Allan . According to Camden there were two families of that name , one Norman , which bore the title of Arundel , & c . , ending by the marriage of the heiress with the head of the Howards ; the other ...
... royal line of Stuart as Fitz Allan . According to Camden there were two families of that name , one Norman , which bore the title of Arundel , & c . , ending by the marriage of the heiress with the head of the Howards ; the other ...
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... Royal Archæological Institute , plenty of evidence is pro- curable that R. R. is mistaken . It is a pity that R. R. was in such a hurry to criticize my tractate , which has been years out of print , for if he had only waited a few weeks ...
... Royal Archæological Institute , plenty of evidence is pro- curable that R. R. is mistaken . It is a pity that R. R. was in such a hurry to criticize my tractate , which has been years out of print , for if he had only waited a few weeks ...
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