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... seems to be nothing more of Cleaveland , which Gibbon adopted , is far more probable , though discarded by Lord Ashburton , viz . , " that after giving his daughter to the king's son , Reginald de Courtenay abandoned his possessions in ...
... seems to be nothing more of Cleaveland , which Gibbon adopted , is far more probable , though discarded by Lord Ashburton , viz . , " that after giving his daughter to the king's son , Reginald de Courtenay abandoned his possessions in ...
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... seems to indicate the late Lord Chief Justice , Sir Alexander Cockburn , and not Sir William Harcourt , as the original from whom the sketch is derived . Sir Alexander Cockburn would have been commencing his legal career somewhere about ...
... seems to indicate the late Lord Chief Justice , Sir Alexander Cockburn , and not Sir William Harcourt , as the original from whom the sketch is derived . Sir Alexander Cockburn would have been commencing his legal career somewhere about ...
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... seems to be very much the distinction grammarians draw between unity and plurality of idea . THOMAS BAYNE . Helensburgh , N.B. There can be no doubt that wage is a genuine old form of the word wages , although , in England at least , as ...
... seems to be very much the distinction grammarians draw between unity and plurality of idea . THOMAS BAYNE . Helensburgh , N.B. There can be no doubt that wage is a genuine old form of the word wages , although , in England at least , as ...
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... seems to be supposed . I cannot see that the W. estyll , pl . sb . , helps us at all , nor is estyll certainly a Celtic word ; it seems to be nothing but the Low Lat . astula ( Ducange ) , put for Lat . assula , thin boards . WALTER W ...
... seems to be supposed . I cannot see that the W. estyll , pl . sb . , helps us at all , nor is estyll certainly a Celtic word ; it seems to be nothing but the Low Lat . astula ( Ducange ) , put for Lat . assula , thin boards . WALTER W ...
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... seems singularly racy of the soil , and the very wording of Qr.'s description of the spot is highly suggestive of a contrary theory . A field named Motcomb , " lying in a hollow close to the old town of - , " irresistibly reminds one of ...
... seems singularly racy of the soil , and the very wording of Qr.'s description of the spot is highly suggestive of a contrary theory . A field named Motcomb , " lying in a hollow close to the old town of - , " irresistibly reminds one of ...
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