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Page 348
... finally gave almost totalitarian powers to his favourite , Wei Chung - hsien , the most notorious eu- nuch of Chinese history . Wei brutally purged hundreds of officials , chiefly those associated with a reformist clique called the Tung ...
... finally gave almost totalitarian powers to his favourite , Wei Chung - hsien , the most notorious eu- nuch of Chinese history . Wei brutally purged hundreds of officials , chiefly those associated with a reformist clique called the Tung ...
Page 513
... finally was reached . The widespread conviction of the Spanish conquerors of the New World that its inhabitants were not really human in the full sense of the word and therefore could be made slaves in good conscience because of their ...
... finally was reached . The widespread conviction of the Spanish conquerors of the New World that its inhabitants were not really human in the full sense of the word and therefore could be made slaves in good conscience because of their ...
Page 985
... Finally , Ja- ques Autreau succeeded in drawing up a play for them that appealed to French audiences - a comedy written in French , almost as though it were intended for the Comé- die - Française but employing the masks usually used in ...
... Finally , Ja- ques Autreau succeeded in drawing up a play for them that appealed to French audiences - a comedy written in French , almost as though it were intended for the Comé- die - Française but employing the masks usually used in ...
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