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... common stock . The languages which prevailed in all the South of Europe after the destruction of the Roman Empire , were a barbarous mixture of the Latin with the different languages of the Northern invaders . The modern languages of ...
... common stock . The languages which prevailed in all the South of Europe after the destruction of the Roman Empire , were a barbarous mixture of the Latin with the different languages of the Northern invaders . The modern languages of ...
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... common depositaries of learning , usually attended in their wars , the people who were left behind must have been chiefly the common people ; so that for a long time after this disaster , Egypt was involved in ignorance and darkness ...
... common depositaries of learning , usually attended in their wars , the people who were left behind must have been chiefly the common people ; so that for a long time after this disaster , Egypt was involved in ignorance and darkness ...
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... common debtor to the Bible . In what department of English literature may not the difference be discovered between the spirit and senti- ments of Christian writers and those who have drawn all their materials of thought and of ornament ...
... common debtor to the Bible . In what department of English literature may not the difference be discovered between the spirit and senti- ments of Christian writers and those who have drawn all their materials of thought and of ornament ...
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... common romance and the novel , with all their fooleries and ravings , would be more contemptible than they are , did they not sometimes undesignedly catch a conception , or adorn a character from the rich treasury of revelation . And ...
... common romance and the novel , with all their fooleries and ravings , would be more contemptible than they are , did they not sometimes undesignedly catch a conception , or adorn a character from the rich treasury of revelation . And ...
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... common English Bible ? It is the purest specimen of English , or Anglo - Saxon , to be found in the world . It was made by the order of James the I. in 1607 , by forty- seven of the most able and learned men of Westmin- ster , Oxford ...
... common English Bible ? It is the purest specimen of English , or Anglo - Saxon , to be found in the world . It was made by the order of James the I. in 1607 , by forty- seven of the most able and learned men of Westmin- ster , Oxford ...
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