The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, Volumes 57-58M. Bailey, 1909 |
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... Head of Amenhotep , 375 ; Figure of Seti I , 375 ; Entrance to Royal Tombs , 375 . Madonnas , Early : " Burgomaster Meyer " Madonna by Holbein , 2 ; Orpheus Playing Lyre , 115 ; Early Christian Sarcophagus , 116 ; Madonna of Sano di ...
... Head of Amenhotep , 375 ; Figure of Seti I , 375 ; Entrance to Royal Tombs , 375 . Madonnas , Early : " Burgomaster Meyer " Madonna by Holbein , 2 ; Orpheus Playing Lyre , 115 ; Early Christian Sarcophagus , 116 ; Madonna of Sano di ...
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... the especial benefit of the daughters of the higher nobility . It was practically the rule that the abbess or head of any prosperous or well - endowed convent , should be of the aristocratic class , as were also. 42 Woman in Civilization.
... the especial benefit of the daughters of the higher nobility . It was practically the rule that the abbess or head of any prosperous or well - endowed convent , should be of the aristocratic class , as were also. 42 Woman in Civilization.
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... head of which was usu- ally a woman . This union of men and women , though in quite separate buildings , had some disadvantages , but many merits . If there was an increased liability to disorder , there was the advantage of community ...
... head of which was usu- ally a woman . This union of men and women , though in quite separate buildings , had some disadvantages , but many merits . If there was an increased liability to disorder , there was the advantage of community ...
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... head of Tiresias answering the magic sum- mons of Odysseus to the gates of hell , a subject scarcely within the capacities of vase - painting . The story of the ideal portrait of Helen , that Zeuxis painted at Croton , using the sisters ...
... head of Tiresias answering the magic sum- mons of Odysseus to the gates of hell , a subject scarcely within the capacities of vase - painting . The story of the ideal portrait of Helen , that Zeuxis painted at Croton , using the sisters ...
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... head taller than her Greek questioners . The names of these , Antiochos , Anchialos , and Eurybates , are culled , the one elsewhere in the Odyssey , and the other two from an unknown literary source or from the artist's own fancy . He ...
... head taller than her Greek questioners . The names of these , Antiochos , Anchialos , and Eurybates , are culled , the one elsewhere in the Odyssey , and the other two from an unknown literary source or from the artist's own fancy . He ...
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