A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... pictures to the student of national history , I have attempted to reproduce , with some vividness , scenes of vanished author - life , and to trace the chief steps by which a green leaf has become a printed volume . For , to know ...
... pictures to the student of national history , I have attempted to reproduce , with some vividness , scenes of vanished author - life , and to trace the chief steps by which a green leaf has become a printed volume . For , to know ...
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... Picture - writing . Reign of Acamapich . Cortez has come . Hieroglyphics . Sesostris on his throne . Phonetics . Conclusion . WHEN in the depth of some Asiatic forest , shadowy with the green fans and sword - blades of the palm tribe ...
... Picture - writing . Reign of Acamapich . Cortez has come . Hieroglyphics . Sesostris on his throne . Phonetics . Conclusion . WHEN in the depth of some Asiatic forest , shadowy with the green fans and sword - blades of the palm tribe ...
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... picture - writing of old Mexico , relating the reign and conquests of King Acamapich . Down the left border runs a broad stripe of blue , divided into thirteen parts by lines resembling the rounds of a MEXICAN PICTURE - WRITING . 13 In ...
... picture - writing of old Mexico , relating the reign and conquests of King Acamapich . Down the left border runs a broad stripe of blue , divided into thirteen parts by lines resembling the rounds of a MEXICAN PICTURE - WRITING . 13 In ...
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... picture was ever unrolled in the splendid palace of Monte- zuma than the cotton cloth emblazoned with terrible meanings , which had been borne , with galloping of swiftest mules , up , up the rocky terraces of the plateau from the blue ...
... picture was ever unrolled in the splendid palace of Monte- zuma than the cotton cloth emblazoned with terrible meanings , which had been borne , with galloping of swiftest mules , up , up the rocky terraces of the plateau from the blue ...
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... picture - writing , but follows a conventional system seldom departed from . The upper part of a canopy in blue stood for the heavens ; a thick waving line of the same , or a greenish hue , represented the sea . The sun is red with a ...
... picture - writing , but follows a conventional system seldom departed from . The upper part of a canopy in blue stood for the heavens ; a thick waving line of the same , or a greenish hue , represented the sea . The sun is red with a ...
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