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... passed in Italy , and the mode in which he healed diseases by incantations and magic poems ; for he knew verses of such power that they produced oblivion of pain , soothed sorrow , and repressed all inordinate appetites . The romance of ...
... passed in Italy , and the mode in which he healed diseases by incantations and magic poems ; for he knew verses of such power that they produced oblivion of pain , soothed sorrow , and repressed all inordinate appetites . The romance of ...
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... passed as dead by the troops of Damas . Having at length recovered , they proceed in their flight [ c . 4 ] , and take up their abode with a man who poisons his brother , and afterwards accuses them of the murder ; a charge from which ...
... passed as dead by the troops of Damas . Having at length recovered , they proceed in their flight [ c . 4 ] , and take up their abode with a man who poisons his brother , and afterwards accuses them of the murder ; a charge from which ...
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... passing as defuncts , or spirits , which pro- duces a disagreeable sameness in a subject which admitted of much variety . There is , besides , an unpleasant ferocity in the character of Sinonis , and too many of the scenes are laid ...
... passing as defuncts , or spirits , which pro- duces a disagreeable sameness in a subject which admitted of much variety . There is , besides , an unpleasant ferocity in the character of Sinonis , and too many of the scenes are laid ...
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... passing Zacynthus , the ship is attacked by pirates [ v . 24 ] , who carry Calasiris 1 This can hardly have been , as in all probability Musæus lived at a later date than Heliodorus . - LIEB . and those under his protection to the coast ...
... passing Zacynthus , the ship is attacked by pirates [ v . 24 ] , who carry Calasiris 1 This can hardly have been , as in all probability Musæus lived at a later date than Heliodorus . - LIEB . and those under his protection to the coast ...
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... passed , and for similar reasons , for brother and sister while in Egypt [ 1 Mos . xii . 13 , xx . 2 ] , and that Isaac and Rebecca im- posed on the people of Gerar under pretence of the same relationship [ 1 Mos . xxvi . 7 ] ...
... passed , and for similar reasons , for brother and sister while in Egypt [ 1 Mos . xii . 13 , xx . 2 ] , and that Isaac and Rebecca im- posed on the people of Gerar under pretence of the same relationship [ 1 Mos . xxvi . 7 ] ...
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