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... . SEDAN - CHAIRS • 29. INTRODUCTION OF ENGLISH HORSES INTO FRANCE 30. PIGS , KINGS , AND MONKS 31. ETIQUETTE on the SCAFFOLD 143 175 176 • 177 183 ib . • 185 186 188 Page 32. MISCELLANEOUS POINTS IN THE HISTORY of the SCIENCES.
... . SEDAN - CHAIRS • 29. INTRODUCTION OF ENGLISH HORSES INTO FRANCE 30. PIGS , KINGS , AND MONKS 31. ETIQUETTE on the SCAFFOLD 143 175 176 • 177 183 ib . • 185 186 188 Page 32. MISCELLANEOUS POINTS IN THE HISTORY of the SCIENCES.
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Charles MacFarlane. model of Valerius Maximus , the favourite classic of the monks . It is quoted and commended as a true history among many historians of credit , such as Josephus , Orosius , Bede , and Eusebius , by Herman Korner , a ...
Charles MacFarlane. model of Valerius Maximus , the favourite classic of the monks . It is quoted and commended as a true history among many historians of credit , such as Josephus , Orosius , Bede , and Eusebius , by Herman Korner , a ...
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... monks serving God and St. Michael . Mr. Sherwill thinks the word Chamouni is derived from Campus Munitus ; to us the converse seems quite as probable . There is another document bearing the date of 1292 , and containing a code of laws ...
... monks serving God and St. Michael . Mr. Sherwill thinks the word Chamouni is derived from Campus Munitus ; to us the converse seems quite as probable . There is another document bearing the date of 1292 , and containing a code of laws ...
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... monk Valentine , who wrote the Currus Triumph- alis Antimonii , is supposed to have invented the name , and there is a tradition that he came by it out of the failure of an inductive experimental process , as follows : * He had given ...
... monk Valentine , who wrote the Currus Triumph- alis Antimonii , is supposed to have invented the name , and there is a tradition that he came by it out of the failure of an inductive experimental process , as follows : * He had given ...
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... monk , and accordingly treated his brethren , who were worn with fasting , to an antimonial dinner . Never was the distinction between a pig and a monk so clearly shown before . The monks all died , and left behind them no memorial ...
... monk , and accordingly treated his brethren , who were worn with fasting , to an antimonial dinner . Never was the distinction between a pig and a monk so clearly shown before . The monks all died , and left behind them no memorial ...
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