Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, 268. köideF. Jefferies, 1890 |
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... original constituents whose marriage produced gold . For several centuries after this the pursuit flagged or slept in Europe , but it reappeared in the eighth century among the Arabians , and from them re - extended to Europe . We are ...
... original constituents whose marriage produced gold . For several centuries after this the pursuit flagged or slept in Europe , but it reappeared in the eighth century among the Arabians , and from them re - extended to Europe . We are ...
Page 64
... original stone itself . The following story I give as it was told to me by some Yorkshire mill lasses , in their own delightful vernacular . I forewarn the reader that the golden ball in the story is the same as the Philoso- pher's ...
... original stone itself . The following story I give as it was told to me by some Yorkshire mill lasses , in their own delightful vernacular . I forewarn the reader that the golden ball in the story is the same as the Philoso- pher's ...
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... original owner , how often soever he parted with it . The same story occurs in Gower's " Confessio Amantis . " The story spread throughout Europe , and is found in most collections of household tales . It occurs in Grimm's " Kinder ...
... original owner , how often soever he parted with it . The same story occurs in Gower's " Confessio Amantis . " The story spread throughout Europe , and is found in most collections of household tales . It occurs in Grimm's " Kinder ...
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... original signification of the marvellous stone is completely lost , as completely as in the European mediæval stories . The Indian Buddhists remembered that there was a won- drous stone of which strange stories had been told , and which ...
... original signification of the marvellous stone is completely lost , as completely as in the European mediæval stories . The Indian Buddhists remembered that there was a won- drous stone of which strange stories had been told , and which ...
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... original cost . Others do not pay so well , but when attended to at all it is one of the most profitable crops known . Around Matma the cacao tree has been cultivated many years , and the soil of Costa Rica is well adapted to the ...
... original cost . Others do not pay so well , but when attended to at all it is one of the most profitable crops known . Around Matma the cacao tree has been cultivated many years , and the soil of Costa Rica is well adapted to the ...
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