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The counts appeal to the whole cortes whether they had not a title to beat maids of low degree with their girths , and tear them with their long rowelled spurs ; and issue was joined upon an allegation that the daughters of the Cid were ...
The counts appeal to the whole cortes whether they had not a title to beat maids of low degree with their girths , and tear them with their long rowelled spurs ; and issue was joined upon an allegation that the daughters of the Cid were ...
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It is but to boil a cow , and supply a fire engine with the broth , and you might baptize a whole Hindoo city out of the Braminical faith . If then the Portuguese in former times , and the British government in later days ...
It is but to boil a cow , and supply a fire engine with the broth , and you might baptize a whole Hindoo city out of the Braminical faith . If then the Portuguese in former times , and the British government in later days ...
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The historian must do his duty when such painful subjects occur ; but the poet who may chuse his theme through the whole unbounded range of truth and fiction may well excuse himself from selecting a subject dishonourable to his own land ...
The historian must do his duty when such painful subjects occur ; but the poet who may chuse his theme through the whole unbounded range of truth and fiction may well excuse himself from selecting a subject dishonourable to his own land ...
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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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