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... example that the personality of one of the greatest dramatists of all times has remained strangely elusive . We know in great detail the lives of a number of Elizabethans who were famous in their days but the life of William Shakespeare ...
... example that the personality of one of the greatest dramatists of all times has remained strangely elusive . We know in great detail the lives of a number of Elizabethans who were famous in their days but the life of William Shakespeare ...
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... example , the incubation rites which were prac- tised in the Greek Asclepieia were in all probability derived from ... examples . The Babylonian influence con- tinued to make itself felt throughout historic times , and it is probable ...
... example , the incubation rites which were prac- tised in the Greek Asclepieia were in all probability derived from ... examples . The Babylonian influence con- tinued to make itself felt throughout historic times , and it is probable ...
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... example , the development of mathematics , or of a single branch of mathematics . The first group is less technical from the purely sci- entific point of view , but more so in other respects ( archæological , linguistic ) . A general ...
... example , the development of mathematics , or of a single branch of mathematics . The first group is less technical from the purely sci- entific point of view , but more so in other respects ( archæological , linguistic ) . A general ...
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