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... seems to offer no more secure footing to an his . torical adventurer than the chaos of Milton ; to be in a state of irreclaim . able disorder , best described in the language of the poet : " A dark Illimitable ocean , without bound ...
... seems to offer no more secure footing to an his . torical adventurer than the chaos of Milton ; to be in a state of irreclaim . able disorder , best described in the language of the poet : " A dark Illimitable ocean , without bound ...
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... seems impelled by a desire to inflict a mortal wound , unknowing that , in this instance at least , the seat of ... seem to revenge some personal injury . " The account of our historian's conversion from the Protestant to the Romish ...
... seems impelled by a desire to inflict a mortal wound , unknowing that , in this instance at least , the seat of ... seem to revenge some personal injury . " The account of our historian's conversion from the Protestant to the Romish ...
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... seem inadequate to their greatness ; but it was fully sufficient for every useful purpose of govern- ment . The ... seems at length to have convinced the ancients , that as soon as their galleys exceeded two , or at the most three ...
... seem inadequate to their greatness ; but it was fully sufficient for every useful purpose of govern- ment . The ... seems at length to have convinced the ancients , that as soon as their galleys exceeded two , or at the most three ...
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... seems , and indeed only seems , an exception to this universal toleration . Under the specious pre- text of abolishing human sacrifices , the emperors Tiberius and Claudiu suppressed the dangerous power of the Druids : ( 4 ) but the ...
... seems , and indeed only seems , an exception to this universal toleration . Under the specious pre- text of abolishing human sacrifices , the emperors Tiberius and Claudiu suppressed the dangerous power of the Druids : ( 4 ) but the ...
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... seems authentic and accurate : the division of the provinces , and the different condition of the cities , are minutely distinguished ( 6 ) Strabon Geograph . I. xvii . p 1189 . OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE soon recovered all the advantages ...
... seems authentic and accurate : the division of the provinces , and the different condition of the cities , are minutely distinguished ( 6 ) Strabon Geograph . I. xvii . p 1189 . OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE soon recovered all the advantages ...
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