Littell's Living Age, Volume 66Living Age Company Incorporated, 1860 - American periodicals |
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... remarkable examples on record , not of the voyage , but of the finding , of a floating messenger , occupied the atten- tion of newspaper - readers eight or nine years half unseen on the African coast ; but still , we ask , where is the ...
... remarkable examples on record , not of the voyage , but of the finding , of a floating messenger , occupied the atten- tion of newspaper - readers eight or nine years half unseen on the African coast ; but still , we ask , where is the ...
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... remarkable is the exact fulfilment of these predictions . The papyrus is unknown in Egypt , the reeds are no longer a feature of its vegetation , English cotton is sold in its streets in the place of its once famous fine linen , and its ...
... remarkable is the exact fulfilment of these predictions . The papyrus is unknown in Egypt , the reeds are no longer a feature of its vegetation , English cotton is sold in its streets in the place of its once famous fine linen , and its ...
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... remarkable in this region , that so long as the skies are covered with mist , and the air blows mildly , the traveller may proceed on his way in safety ; but woe to that wretched man who is caught in the midst of the moun- tains , when ...
... remarkable in this region , that so long as the skies are covered with mist , and the air blows mildly , the traveller may proceed on his way in safety ; but woe to that wretched man who is caught in the midst of the moun- tains , when ...
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... remarkable a talent , and has left such felici- tous anticipations in them , his name as one of the first of artists would have been un - phos videtur . The immeasurable superiority known ; and had Voltaire prosecuted [ Note 3 ] the ...
... remarkable a talent , and has left such felici- tous anticipations in them , his name as one of the first of artists would have been un - phos videtur . The immeasurable superiority known ; and had Voltaire prosecuted [ Note 3 ] the ...
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... remarkable occasion , at the bar of the House of Lords , in the queen's case , made the same mistake upon the pas- sage delivered before the adjournment in the middle of the first day of the defence . The objection made , that prepared ...
... remarkable occasion , at the bar of the House of Lords , in the queen's case , made the same mistake upon the pas- sage delivered before the adjournment in the middle of the first day of the defence . The objection made , that prepared ...
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