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Perhaps it was not less improbable , if the Spanish spirit remained unbroken , that Spain should be effectually subdued within the same period . Her strength did not , nor does it now consist in her regular armies , which , however ...
Perhaps it was not less improbable , if the Spanish spirit remained unbroken , that Spain should be effectually subdued within the same period . Her strength did not , nor does it now consist in her regular armies , which , however ...
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Except the system of Mexican priestcraft , no fabric of human fraud has ever been devised so deadly as the Braminical ; and though the Mexican rites were bloodier , they were less heart - hardening , less injurious to society , less ...
Except the system of Mexican priestcraft , no fabric of human fraud has ever been devised so deadly as the Braminical ; and though the Mexican rites were bloodier , they were less heart - hardening , less injurious to society , less ...
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There is nothing in their language which is in the slightest degree unpleasant to an English ear , except a nasal sound less strongly marked , and far less disagreeable , than that which so frequently recurs in French .
There is nothing in their language which is in the slightest degree unpleasant to an English ear , except a nasal sound less strongly marked , and far less disagreeable , than that which so frequently recurs in French .
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Contents
Affaires dEspagne Nos 1 to 5 Confédération | 1 |
Reliques of Robert Burns consisting chiefly of original | 19 |
Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born | 36 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Quarterly review Volume 1 of The Quarterly Review |
| Contributor | Aborigines' Friends' Association (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Publisher | Aborigines' Friends' Association, 1940 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Jan 2008 |
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