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... Tables of Rome . It is impossible now-- now that India has become more commonplace as she has got nearer ; now that , here at all events , she is associated with frontier wars , budgets , opium , and grey shirtings - to reproduce the ...
... Tables of Rome . It is impossible now-- now that India has become more commonplace as she has got nearer ; now that , here at all events , she is associated with frontier wars , budgets , opium , and grey shirtings - to reproduce the ...
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... Tables of Rome contain rules which are plainly religious or ritualistic : - Thou shalt not square a funeral pile with an adze . Let not women tear their cheeks at a funeral . Thou shalt not put gold on a corpse . We are told by Cicero ...
... Tables of Rome contain rules which are plainly religious or ritualistic : - Thou shalt not square a funeral pile with an adze . Let not women tear their cheeks at a funeral . Thou shalt not put gold on a corpse . We are told by Cicero ...
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... table forms before it is again clothed with a human body . It is hard not to smile at the grotesque particularity of detail with which such writers as Vishnu and Manu depict the transmigration of souls . ' Criminals in the highest ...
... table forms before it is again clothed with a human body . It is hard not to smile at the grotesque particularity of detail with which such writers as Vishnu and Manu depict the transmigration of souls . ' Criminals in the highest ...
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... Tables with the Equity of the Prætor's Edict ; two streams of law profoundly influenced at their source , as no reader of M. Fustel de Coulanges can doubt , by the worship of ancestors . Modern investigators who have made it their ...
... Tables with the Equity of the Prætor's Edict ; two streams of law profoundly influenced at their source , as no reader of M. Fustel de Coulanges can doubt , by the worship of ancestors . Modern investigators who have made it their ...
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... Tables , and it governed the remoter collateral suc- cessions under the law of Athens , which prescribed that agnates should always have precedence over cognates ( προτιμάσθαι τοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν ἄῤῥένων τῶν ἀπὸ Onλeíwv ) . Indeed , if a ...
... Tables , and it governed the remoter collateral suc- cessions under the law of Athens , which prescribed that agnates should always have precedence over cognates ( προτιμάσθαι τοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν ἄῤῥένων τῶν ἀπὸ Onλeíwv ) . Indeed , if a ...
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