The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Količina 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 strani |
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... persons who , with inferior qualifications for the task , have with far more dogma- tism found other sites for the Mons Grampius . The question , in fact , occasioned a contest as memorable in literature as the battle itself in history ...
... persons who , with inferior qualifications for the task , have with far more dogma- tism found other sites for the Mons Grampius . The question , in fact , occasioned a contest as memorable in literature as the battle itself in history ...
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... person who stepped forth as the lucky discoverer of so precious a relic was Charles Julius Bertram , English Professor in the Royal Marine Academy at Copenhagen . He got into a correspondence with Stukeley the antiquary , in which he ...
... person who stepped forth as the lucky discoverer of so precious a relic was Charles Julius Bertram , English Professor in the Royal Marine Academy at Copenhagen . He got into a correspondence with Stukeley the antiquary , in which he ...
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... person can traverse the line of the barrier without coming to the conclusion that all the works , vallum wall and fosse , turrets , castles , stations , outposts , and military ways , are but so many parts of one great design ...
... person can traverse the line of the barrier without coming to the conclusion that all the works , vallum wall and fosse , turrets , castles , stations , outposts , and military ways , are but so many parts of one great design ...
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... , obsequiousness , and general power of tormenting , which is provided for the traveller in the person of the commissioner or local guide . this is said in a clause of a rounded sentence THE GREAT WALL , A.D. 120-220 . 27.
... , obsequiousness , and general power of tormenting , which is provided for the traveller in the person of the commissioner or local guide . this is said in a clause of a rounded sentence THE GREAT WALL , A.D. 120-220 . 27.
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... persons who have collected them . But when he comes to the scanty notices provided by some ad- venturous explorer of a district full of wonders , the man who provides it becomes part of the material — the question of his opportunities ...
... persons who have collected them . But when he comes to the scanty notices provided by some ad- venturous explorer of a district full of wonders , the man who provides it becomes part of the material — the question of his opportunities ...
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