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... proved by experience in what lay her true safety . The galleys of Pepin had been stranded in her shallow waters , and his men suffocated by thousands in the mud of her numerous canals . These , then , were her natural defences ; and ...
... proved by experience in what lay her true safety . The galleys of Pepin had been stranded in her shallow waters , and his men suffocated by thousands in the mud of her numerous canals . These , then , were her natural defences ; and ...
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... proved per- fectly successful , was , that Venice found herself mistress of a large number of islands in the Grecian Archipelago , and in the Mediterra- nean . The whole Eastern Empire , in fact , was partitioned between the victorious ...
... proved per- fectly successful , was , that Venice found herself mistress of a large number of islands in the Grecian Archipelago , and in the Mediterra- nean . The whole Eastern Empire , in fact , was partitioned between the victorious ...
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... proved to him that it did him harm , when he was conscious that it had no such effect upon him . We know how terribly un- scientific such a means of judging as we have just suggested must appear ; but in matters of diet it is the one ...
... proved to him that it did him harm , when he was conscious that it had no such effect upon him . We know how terribly un- scientific such a means of judging as we have just suggested must appear ; but in matters of diet it is the one ...
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... proved themselves as good soldiers as those of any nation ; and Holland , since the peace , has been doing an immense colonial trade , and has been gradually enriching herself . It is notorious , in particular , that she has known how ...
... proved themselves as good soldiers as those of any nation ; and Holland , since the peace , has been doing an immense colonial trade , and has been gradually enriching herself . It is notorious , in particular , that she has known how ...
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... prove the inability of even so great a master to conquer the inherent faultiness of the style he made so popular . His feeble successors have , for the most part , been content to repeat and multiply the ugly windows , without any of ...
... prove the inability of even so great a master to conquer the inherent faultiness of the style he made so popular . His feeble successors have , for the most part , been content to repeat and multiply the ugly windows , without any of ...
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Página 83 - ... with their reflections and observations upon every piece of intelligence that is sent us from abroad. The text is given us by one set of writers, and the comment by another. But notwithstanding we have the same tale told us in so many different papers, and, if occasion requires, in so many articles of the same paper ; notwithstanding, in a scarcity of foreign posts, we hear the same story repeated by different...
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