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We can scarcely therefore doubt that these quadrupeds, during some part of the Pleistocene period, ranged freely from the continent of Europe to England, at a time when there was an uninterrupted communication by land between the two countries.
As each household had its own portion of land, so the clan-household or village had a clan-land belonging to it, which, as will afterwards be shown, was managed up to a comparatively late period after the analogy of household land, that is, on the system of joint-possession.
At the same period, Michelangelo fell under very different influences; and these left a far more lasting impression on his character than the gay festivals and witty word-combats of the lords of Florence.
They have neither the passionate monotonous tone of my fellow-countrymen, nor the sentimentality of the Germans, nor the fatiguing mannerisms of the English; to every period they give its proper expression, but the recurrence of the same sounds partly spoils their recitation.
I should wantonly throw away I constantly reminded myself whatever great good fortune Fate destined for me if I yielded to my longing and took prematurely what was already so close at hand; for do you remember? at that time it was promised that on a night when the moon was at the full a new period of the utmost happiness would begin for me. And now unless everything deceives me now it awaits me.
You will most readily understand how and why, if we take up the chain of events where we last left it at the period of Mr. and Mrs. Vanstone's marriage." "One moment, sir," said Miss Garth. "Were you in the secret of that marriage at the time when it took place?" "Unhappily, I was not. I was away from London away from England at the time. If Mr.
It had carried the masses over a dead period, even if only by letting them go in a circle. And now the idea was ready to take them again. Perhaps it was a good thing that there had not been too great progress, or they would probably never have wakened again. They might very well starve a little longer, until they could establish themselves in their own world; fat slaves soon lost sight of liberty.
Teething is strictly the period when the voluntary center of the lower plane first comes into full activity, and takes for a time the precedence. So, the mouth is the great sensual gate to the lower body.
He has been Governor-General of the Colony, Vice-Governor-General of the Katanga and is now Honorary Vice-Governor. In the primitive period he went about, after the Congo fashion, on a bicycle, in flannel shirt and leggins and he continued this rough-and-ready attire when he became a high-placed civil servant.
Incidentally, it has furnished a social center for the countryside. The churches which have had to do with it have been enlarged, their membership extended and even their gifts to foreign missions have been increased in the period of growth of the farmers' club.
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