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... towns there used , of old , to be annually elected from among the burgesses , by the magistrates , an Abbé de Liesse ( in Latin , Abbas Lætitiæ ) , that is , an Abbot of Joy , who acted for the year as a sort of master of the revels ...
... towns there used , of old , to be annually elected from among the burgesses , by the magistrates , an Abbé de Liesse ( in Latin , Abbas Lætitiæ ) , that is , an Abbot of Joy , who acted for the year as a sort of master of the revels ...
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... towns of Italy , the employment of English capital would not be required to the same degree as if they were all to remove to Brussels . Accumulation , or the increase of wealth in a country , can only arise from savings or from profits ...
... towns of Italy , the employment of English capital would not be required to the same degree as if they were all to remove to Brussels . Accumulation , or the increase of wealth in a country , can only arise from savings or from profits ...
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... town of Ceryneia , to sur- render his authority , and save his life . These three towns joined the new league . In B.C. 251 , Aratus having delivered Sicyon , which was not an Achæan town , brought it over to the confederacy , of which ...
... town of Ceryneia , to sur- render his authority , and save his life . These three towns joined the new league . In B.C. 251 , Aratus having delivered Sicyon , which was not an Achæan town , brought it over to the confederacy , of which ...
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... towns have Ireland . The total duty amounted to adopted a plan of charging only 2s . 6d . for 128,318 .; and it has progressively in- short advertisements of a couple of lines , creased from the period when the reduc- which are ...
... towns have Ireland . The total duty amounted to adopted a plan of charging only 2s . 6d . for 128,318 .; and it has progressively in- short advertisements of a couple of lines , creased from the period when the reduc- which are ...
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... towns on the Hellespont , and in Asia Minor . This alliance with Elis would tend to confirm the tradition of the early connexion already alluded to . Following , probably , the example of the Achæan league , the different parts of ...
... towns on the Hellespont , and in Asia Minor . This alliance with Elis would tend to confirm the tradition of the early connexion already alluded to . Following , probably , the example of the Achæan league , the different parts of ...
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