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... common H to our rigorous climate which endanger the constitution will always exist , though many may be mitigated and their effects removed by timely aid appropriately applied . Holloway's Pills are acknow- ledged far and wide to be the ...
... common H to our rigorous climate which endanger the constitution will always exist , though many may be mitigated and their effects removed by timely aid appropriately applied . Holloway's Pills are acknow- ledged far and wide to be the ...
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... common- place name of the Barrel of Butter . The Norsemen , who gave names to most of the islands , were close observers of nature , and quick to seize any peculiar characteristic of men or things . Any oddity of personal appear- ance ...
... common- place name of the Barrel of Butter . The Norsemen , who gave names to most of the islands , were close observers of nature , and quick to seize any peculiar characteristic of men or things . Any oddity of personal appear- ance ...
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... common appellations for a witch , have both remained in use , the one in the mouth of the people , and the other in the writings of the learned in such matters , almost unaltered from old Roman times . Strega is the strix , the screech ...
... common appellations for a witch , have both remained in use , the one in the mouth of the people , and the other in the writings of the learned in such matters , almost unaltered from old Roman times . Strega is the strix , the screech ...
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... common in the Low Countries in Marston's days ? I have not come across this expression , which would appear to be proverbial , in any other old play . To wear the yellow . - This phrase appears to have another meaning besides that of ...
... common in the Low Countries in Marston's days ? I have not come across this expression , which would appear to be proverbial , in any other old play . To wear the yellow . - This phrase appears to have another meaning besides that of ...
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... common people , the idol of heretics , the looking - glass of hypocrites , the en- courager of schism , the sower of hatred , and the maker of lies , when he designed , as it is reputed , to belch out accusations and blasphemies against ...
... common people , the idol of heretics , the looking - glass of hypocrites , the en- courager of schism , the sower of hatred , and the maker of lies , when he designed , as it is reputed , to belch out accusations and blasphemies against ...
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