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... average education converse together for half an hour on general subjects , there can be little doubt that , with- out actual quotation , the ever genial wit of Shakspere will be found to have given point , and his universal poetry ...
... average education converse together for half an hour on general subjects , there can be little doubt that , with- out actual quotation , the ever genial wit of Shakspere will be found to have given point , and his universal poetry ...
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... average annual number of births and burials we may infer that the usual number of the inhabitants was about 1200. When William Shakspere was about two months old the plague broke out in this town , and , in the short space of six months ...
... average annual number of births and burials we may infer that the usual number of the inhabitants was about 1200. When William Shakspere was about two months old the plague broke out in this town , and , in the short space of six months ...
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... average duration of life at the present time , and partly the greater reverence in which the head of a family was formerly held by his children and de- pendants . But in the year in which ' The Passionate Pilgrim ' was published ...
... average duration of life at the present time , and partly the greater reverence in which the head of a family was formerly held by his children and de- pendants . But in the year in which ' The Passionate Pilgrim ' was published ...
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... averages about two and a quarter per mile . Besides ordinary arches of brick and stone , bridges consisting of cast- iron girders laid from one abutment to the other , and support- ing a platform of flag - stones , iron plates , or ...
... averages about two and a quarter per mile . Besides ordinary arches of brick and stone , bridges consisting of cast- iron girders laid from one abutment to the other , and support- ing a platform of flag - stones , iron plates , or ...
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... average loads moving at the medium speed employed to pass round the curve without the flanges on either side coming in contact with the rails , and with the wheels rolling on diameters unequal in a degree corresponding with the radius ...
... average loads moving at the medium speed employed to pass round the curve without the flanges on either side coming in contact with the rails , and with the wheels rolling on diameters unequal in a degree corresponding with the radius ...
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