New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, 102. köideThomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1854 |
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... present day , when the sources of his- torical evidence are more carefully investigated than in former times , we regard these authorities 2000 years after the event as having no par- ticular weight , unless so far as they may be ...
... present day , when the sources of his- torical evidence are more carefully investigated than in former times , we regard these authorities 2000 years after the event as having no par- ticular weight , unless so far as they may be ...
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... present themselves every year for the speculative surmises of superstitious travellers . One fact comes out of an identification of this kind made by Captain Lynch of the United States navy , which is , that he thereby associates the ...
... present themselves every year for the speculative surmises of superstitious travellers . One fact comes out of an identification of this kind made by Captain Lynch of the United States navy , which is , that he thereby associates the ...
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... present . The doomed cities being situated at what was then the south end of the lake , they were all buried by an encroachment of the waters , which took place in a southward direction - probably from a subsidence in the soil admitting ...
... present . The doomed cities being situated at what was then the south end of the lake , they were all buried by an encroachment of the waters , which took place in a southward direction - probably from a subsidence in the soil admitting ...
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... present traces at the foot of the Salt Mountains , where De Sauley avers to have detected such ; or , if buried beneath the waters , it would be at no great distance from the south- westerly shore . The width of the Dead Sea at the ...
... present traces at the foot of the Salt Mountains , where De Sauley avers to have detected such ; or , if buried beneath the waters , it would be at no great distance from the south- westerly shore . The width of the Dead Sea at the ...
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... present century no more resembles England in the last , than the native inhabitants of Australia resemble those of Africa ; and the progress which science has made , in the invention of gas , and the various applications of steam and ...
... present century no more resembles England in the last , than the native inhabitants of Australia resemble those of Africa ; and the progress which science has made , in the invention of gas , and the various applications of steam and ...
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