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... equal pains encouraging facts . Even upon the face of his own showing it appears to us that there is something like inconsistent colourings . He labours in one part of the publication to show that British sway in India has been ...
... equal pains encouraging facts . Even upon the face of his own showing it appears to us that there is something like inconsistent colourings . He labours in one part of the publication to show that British sway in India has been ...
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... equal suc- cess may be looked for in Central Asia . The plain and striped silks of the small Afghan district of Derejat on the west of the Indus , now subject to the Rajah of Lahore , are considered to surpass those of every other ...
... equal suc- cess may be looked for in Central Asia . The plain and striped silks of the small Afghan district of Derejat on the west of the Indus , now subject to the Rajah of Lahore , are considered to surpass those of every other ...
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... equal to a German reputation , gives us a connected and engaging narrative , such as patient research and well - sifted speculation allow him to apply to ancient times , and the educement of truths regard- ing the human mind . It is ...
... equal to a German reputation , gives us a connected and engaging narrative , such as patient research and well - sifted speculation allow him to apply to ancient times , and the educement of truths regard- ing the human mind . It is ...
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... equal portions by the flat disk of the Earth . The external shell of this globe is called by the poets brazen and iron , probably only to express its solidity . The superior hemisphere was named Heaven , the inferior one Tartaros . The ...
... equal portions by the flat disk of the Earth . The external shell of this globe is called by the poets brazen and iron , probably only to express its solidity . The superior hemisphere was named Heaven , the inferior one Tartaros . The ...
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... equal . These divisions do not seem to have had any peculiar names in the time of Homer . The Northern one was afterwards named Europe ; the Southern , at first called Asia alone , was in process of time divided into Asia and Libya ...
... equal . These divisions do not seem to have had any peculiar names in the time of Homer . The Northern one was afterwards named Europe ; the Southern , at first called Asia alone , was in process of time divided into Asia and Libya ...
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