The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events; St. Paul's to St. James'sHutchinson & Company, 1906 - 626 pages |
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... supposed by some geologists that there was a period before the creation of man , when creatures vaster than any now on dry land trampled the earth at will ; perhaps had faculties no longer to be found in connection with brute forms ...
... supposed by some geologists that there was a period before the creation of man , when creatures vaster than any now on dry land trampled the earth at will ; perhaps had faculties no longer to be found in connection with brute forms ...
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... supposed to be found in that writer , under the appellation of Civitas Trino- bantum , the city of the Trinobantes ; though some are of opinion that by civitas he only meant their government or community . Be this as it may , a city of ...
... supposed to be found in that writer , under the appellation of Civitas Trino- bantum , the city of the Trinobantes ; though some are of opinion that by civitas he only meant their government or community . Be this as it may , a city of ...
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... supposed to have first taken possession of it about a hundred years afterwards , in the reign of Claudius . They had heard of a pearl - fishery , says Gibbon . At all events they found oysters ; for Sandwich ( Rutupium ) became famous ...
... supposed to have first taken possession of it about a hundred years afterwards , in the reign of Claudius . They had heard of a pearl - fishery , says Gibbon . At all events they found oysters ; for Sandwich ( Rutupium ) became famous ...
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... supposed to be witches ; and of other domestic superstitions , of which we are , perhaps , now - a - days unable to calculate the mischief . Surely we desire to see no more of them ; and we are heartily will- ing that the same progress ...
... supposed to be witches ; and of other domestic superstitions , of which we are , perhaps , now - a - days unable to calculate the mischief . Surely we desire to see no more of them ; and we are heartily will- ing that the same progress ...
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... supposed by some to have originated in one of those sacred stones which the Druids made use of in worship ; but at least it is more than probable that here was a burial - ground of the ancient Britons ; because when Sir Christopher Wren ...
... supposed by some to have originated in one of those sacred stones which the Druids made use of in worship ; but at least it is more than probable that here was a burial - ground of the ancient Britons ; because when Sir Christopher Wren ...
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