Evening recreations; or, Samples from the lecture room [by various authors] ed. by J.H. Gurney |
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... period . It was near to the close of the tenth century when Vladimir I. , as the old historians tell us , sent out a commission for the purpose of selecting a religion . When those learned men returned , and laid before their prince the ...
... period . It was near to the close of the tenth century when Vladimir I. , as the old historians tell us , sent out a commission for the purpose of selecting a religion . When those learned men returned , and laid before their prince the ...
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... period as last year , when the Minister of Instruction , I learn from recent letters , prohibited its further sale . The Holy Synod has been commissioned to prepare a similar book in Slavonic : a mockery of the nation's hunger which may ...
... period as last year , when the Minister of Instruction , I learn from recent letters , prohibited its further sale . The Holy Synod has been commissioned to prepare a similar book in Slavonic : a mockery of the nation's hunger which may ...
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... period was the building of a navy . Looking at the situation of Mexico , and having sad experience of the causeways by which alone it could be approached , Cortes soon determined that the city was impregnable unless attacked by water ...
... period was the building of a navy . Looking at the situation of Mexico , and having sad experience of the causeways by which alone it could be approached , Cortes soon determined that the city was impregnable unless attacked by water ...
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... period in the past , however remote , since its creation , and where it will be at any future time , however long to come . The predic- tion of eclipses in our almanacs , is a familiar illustration of the accuracy of the science ; the ...
... period in the past , however remote , since its creation , and where it will be at any future time , however long to come . The predic- tion of eclipses in our almanacs , is a familiar illustration of the accuracy of the science ; the ...
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... period . Even among the civilised Greeks , ideas little more advanced were common . The present astronomer royal , Mr. Airy , tells us that he has often wondered at a passage in Herodotus , the father of history , where he says " that ...
... period . Even among the civilised Greeks , ideas little more advanced were common . The present astronomer royal , Mr. Airy , tells us that he has often wondered at a passage in Herodotus , the father of history , where he says " that ...
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