Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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Page 57
... early Norman style , of the cushion char- acter . The windows and doors have semicircular arched heads , and the roof of the nave is generally wooden , the side aisles alone being vaulted . The Early English Style The The transition ...
... early Norman style , of the cushion char- acter . The windows and doors have semicircular arched heads , and the roof of the nave is generally wooden , the side aisles alone being vaulted . The Early English Style The The transition ...
Page 184
... early life , of his love , and hate bred by love rejected , the city which cast him forth in his prime , and to which for twenty years he looked back with an agony of longing , " that most beautiful and most famous daughter of Rome ...
... early life , of his love , and hate bred by love rejected , the city which cast him forth in his prime , and to which for twenty years he looked back with an agony of longing , " that most beautiful and most famous daughter of Rome ...
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... early influences were aristocratic . And yet in spite , perhaps because , of this , at an early age Tolstoy himself was democratic and revolutionary . Born in 1828 , he passed his early years in the quietude of the family estate in the ...
... early influences were aristocratic . And yet in spite , perhaps because , of this , at an early age Tolstoy himself was democratic and revolutionary . Born in 1828 , he passed his early years in the quietude of the family estate in the ...
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