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James Anthony Froude. ANNALS OF AN ENGLISH ABBEY . I. HUMAN HISTORY , say the philosophers , is the evolution of events which lie already in their causes , as the properties of geometrical figures lie in the scientific definition of ...
James Anthony Froude. ANNALS OF AN ENGLISH ABBEY . I. HUMAN HISTORY , say the philosophers , is the evolution of events which lie already in their causes , as the properties of geometrical figures lie in the scientific definition of ...
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... history - we dream that we can trace laws of causation which governed the actions of our fathers , and from which we can forecast the tendencies of genera- tions to come . The spontaneous force in the soul of a single man of genius will ...
... history - we dream that we can trace laws of causation which governed the actions of our fathers , and from which we can forecast the tendencies of genera- tions to come . The spontaneous force in the soul of a single man of genius will ...
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... history of one of these founda- tions as it actually existed in ancient England . As in science , if we would know the nature of any animal or plant , we can learn much , if not the whole , of its character from a single specimen , so ...
... history of one of these founda- tions as it actually existed in ancient England . As in science , if we would know the nature of any animal or plant , we can learn much , if not the whole , of its character from a single specimen , so ...
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... history , King Offa sent to the Bishop ( or Archbishop as he was then called ) of Lichfield to meet him with his brother prelates on the site of Verulam . It was a summer day , August 1 , 793 , a year after the murder . Offa , then a ...
... history , King Offa sent to the Bishop ( or Archbishop as he was then called ) of Lichfield to meet him with his brother prelates on the site of Verulam . It was a summer day , August 1 , 793 , a year after the murder . Offa , then a ...
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