The Reliques of Father ProutG. Bell, 1889 - 580 pages |
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... Rome , perfect in its simplicity , yet derived a supplementary grace from the portico superadded by Agrippa . Much meditating on the materials that fill " the chest , " and daily more impressed with the merit of our author , we thought ...
... Rome , perfect in its simplicity , yet derived a supplementary grace from the portico superadded by Agrippa . Much meditating on the materials that fill " the chest , " and daily more impressed with the merit of our author , we thought ...
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... Rome . The daughter will ever inherit the leading features of the mother ; and though in your eyes the fresh and un- withered fascinations of the new faith may fling into the shade the more matronly graces of the old , somewhat on the ...
... Rome . The daughter will ever inherit the leading features of the mother ; and though in your eyes the fresh and un- withered fascinations of the new faith may fling into the shade the more matronly graces of the old , somewhat on the ...
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... Rome ; while the Celtic races remained faithful to the successor of the ' Fisherman , ' and kept Lent . " The Hollanders , the Swedes , the Saxons , the Prussians , and in Germany those circles in which the Gothic blood ran heaviest and ...
... Rome ; while the Celtic races remained faithful to the successor of the ' Fisherman , ' and kept Lent . " The Hollanders , the Swedes , the Saxons , the Prussians , and in Germany those circles in which the Gothic blood ran heaviest and ...
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... Rome to determine how it should be properly cooked . It must be admitted that , since the Whigs came to office , although they 1 Here Prout is in error . Scipio means a " walking - stick , " and com- memorates the filial piety of one of ...
... Rome to determine how it should be properly cooked . It must be admitted that , since the Whigs came to office , although they 1 Here Prout is in error . Scipio means a " walking - stick , " and com- memorates the filial piety of one of ...
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... Rome as Father Prout . His brain was a storehouse of inexhaustible knowledge , and his memory a bazaar , in which the intel . lectual riches of past ages were classified and arranged in marvellous and brilliant assortment . When , by ...
... Rome as Father Prout . His brain was a storehouse of inexhaustible knowledge , and his memory a bazaar , in which the intel . lectual riches of past ages were classified and arranged in marvellous and brilliant assortment . When , by ...
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