The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 |
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... capital points the tradition of the Greeks . The Argolid --- Mycena and Tiryns - had been the seat of a strong and rich civilisation in prehistoric times ; contemporaneously there had been a great fortress at Troy ; and the ancient sea ...
... capital points the tradition of the Greeks . The Argolid --- Mycena and Tiryns - had been the seat of a strong and rich civilisation in prehistoric times ; contemporaneously there had been a great fortress at Troy ; and the ancient sea ...
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... capital , Antioch , through which would lie his obvious route to Parthia , had issued a proclama- tion forbidding his party to approach it under peril of their lives . Here , then , he finally relinquished a project which a later ...
... capital , Antioch , through which would lie his obvious route to Parthia , had issued a proclama- tion forbidding his party to approach it under peril of their lives . Here , then , he finally relinquished a project which a later ...
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... capital lived on , as it would appear , and attached itself to the great obelisk now known as ' Pompey's Pillar , ' but really erected to commemorate the siege of the city by Diocletian . At some time or other , according to Plutarch ...
... capital lived on , as it would appear , and attached itself to the great obelisk now known as ' Pompey's Pillar , ' but really erected to commemorate the siege of the city by Diocletian . At some time or other , according to Plutarch ...
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... capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi . Wherever the merit or demerit of that decision lies , it cannot be attributed to Lord Hardinge personally . Lord Hardinge reached India towards the end of 1910 . The mind of the Government of ...
... capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi . Wherever the merit or demerit of that decision lies , it cannot be attributed to Lord Hardinge personally . Lord Hardinge reached India towards the end of 1910 . The mind of the Government of ...
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... capital at Dacca had to be abandoned and a new one commenced , in a very indifferent locality , at Bankipore , a place that has only survived as a military cantonment because of the necessity of keeping some troops in the neighbourhood ...
... capital at Dacca had to be abandoned and a new one commenced , in a very indifferent locality , at Bankipore , a place that has only survived as a military cantonment because of the necessity of keeping some troops in the neighbourhood ...
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