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... language , is as unstable as shifting sands ; -after a few years so changed as to be hardly recognizable . A large proportion of the human race must always have been in this condition , all too uncertain to fix with definite ideas of ...
... language , is as unstable as shifting sands ; -after a few years so changed as to be hardly recognizable . A large proportion of the human race must always have been in this condition , all too uncertain to fix with definite ideas of ...
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... to have passed into all the dialects of the romance language in use in the Middle Ages , and to have been then used to describe the beings whom we now know as the fays of romance : fata , Italian 62 THE PEDIGREE OF THE DEVIL .
... to have passed into all the dialects of the romance language in use in the Middle Ages , and to have been then used to describe the beings whom we now know as the fays of romance : fata , Italian 62 THE PEDIGREE OF THE DEVIL .
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... language the means of counting beyond two : their huts are of various shapes , but large common dwellings are found ... languages . Their character is described as " merry , talkative , petulant , inquisitive , and rest- less ; their ...
... language the means of counting beyond two : their huts are of various shapes , but large common dwellings are found ... languages . Their character is described as " merry , talkative , petulant , inquisitive , and rest- less ; their ...
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... language the means of counting beyond two : their huts are of various shapes , but large common dwellings are found ... languages . Their character is described merry , talkative , petulant , inquisitive , and rest- less ; their speech ...
... language the means of counting beyond two : their huts are of various shapes , but large common dwellings are found ... languages . Their character is described merry , talkative , petulant , inquisitive , and rest- less ; their speech ...
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... language , calls this religion " monosyllabic " : 1 Professor Haeckel , the uncompromising champion of material evolution , would call it a " one - celled " religion and we may safely accept it as a faith founded on the realization of ...
... language , calls this religion " monosyllabic " : 1 Professor Haeckel , the uncompromising champion of material evolution , would call it a " one - celled " religion and we may safely accept it as a faith founded on the realization of ...
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