The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 5Published for the proprietors, 1836 |
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... masters of this province in the thirteenth century , at the time when the fury of the crusades armed the Christians against every one who was not of their religion . Albert , margrave of Bran- denbourg , grand master of these religious ...
... masters of this province in the thirteenth century , at the time when the fury of the crusades armed the Christians against every one who was not of their religion . Albert , margrave of Bran- denbourg , grand master of these religious ...
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... master in a kind of subjection . He had the boldness to excommunicate some senators who op- posed his excessive insolence ; till at last , Alexis , finding himself not powerful enough to depose him by his own authority , was obliged to ...
... master in a kind of subjection . He had the boldness to excommunicate some senators who op- posed his excessive insolence ; till at last , Alexis , finding himself not powerful enough to depose him by his own authority , was obliged to ...
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... master , Theodore , you have poisoned others , and therefore merit death : " and therefore killed him . At length they found the Dutchman of whom they were in quest , dis guised in the garb of a beg- gar ; they instantly drag him before ...
... master , Theodore , you have poisoned others , and therefore merit death : " and therefore killed him . At length they found the Dutchman of whom they were in quest , dis guised in the garb of a beg- gar ; they instantly drag him before ...
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... master of the Latin tongue , which was , at that time , almost entirely un- known in Russia . He was of an active and indefa- tigable spirit , had a genius superior to the times he lived in , and capable , had he had leisure and power ...
... master of the Latin tongue , which was , at that time , almost entirely un- known in Russia . He was of an active and indefa- tigable spirit , had a genius superior to the times he lived in , and capable , had he had leisure and power ...
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... master , enough of gram- mar and High Dutch , to be able to write and ex- plain himself tolerably well in both those languages . The Germans and Dutch appeared to him as the most civilized nations , because the former had already ...
... master , enough of gram- mar and High Dutch , to be able to write and ex- plain himself tolerably well in both those languages . The Germans and Dutch appeared to him as the most civilized nations , because the former had already ...
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