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... suppose no one will deny that , if any literary task is worth undertaking , an Englishman may con- sider all time well spent which is spent in attempting to ascertain what are the bodily and mental features possessed by the majority of ...
... suppose no one will deny that , if any literary task is worth undertaking , an Englishman may con- sider all time well spent which is spent in attempting to ascertain what are the bodily and mental features possessed by the majority of ...
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... suppose that an Englishman pronounces the words Cincius and Cicero exactly as a Roman pronounced them . But if we are not to translate French vowels into English vowels , why need we pretend to give a faithful rendering of Latin or of ...
... suppose that an Englishman pronounces the words Cincius and Cicero exactly as a Roman pronounced them . But if we are not to translate French vowels into English vowels , why need we pretend to give a faithful rendering of Latin or of ...
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... suppose that the ancestors of the English have had any connection . But all this evidence must be sub- mitted to a most careful examination . That which at first sight appears to be good evidence may , after investigation , prove to be ...
... suppose that the ancestors of the English have had any connection . But all this evidence must be sub- mitted to a most careful examination . That which at first sight appears to be good evidence may , after investigation , prove to be ...
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... suppose that there has been no considerable admixture of foreign blood . The laws of human hybridity have yet to be established . Attempts have already been made to establish those laws , but the conclusions arrived at are supported by ...
... suppose that there has been no considerable admixture of foreign blood . The laws of human hybridity have yet to be established . Attempts have already been made to establish those laws , but the conclusions arrived at are supported by ...
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... suppose the popu- lousness of the land , which the Angles , and Saxons , and Jutes abandoned , to have been without parallel , it seems impossible that they could have come in such numbers as to constitute a majority of the population ...
... suppose the popu- lousness of the land , which the Angles , and Saxons , and Jutes abandoned , to have been without parallel , it seems impossible that they could have come in such numbers as to constitute a majority of the population ...
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