Rectorial Addresses: Delivered in the University of Aberdeen, 1835-1900University, 1902 - 396 pagine |
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Rectorial Addresses: Delivered in the University of Aberdeen, 1835-1900 University of Aberdeen Visualizzazione completa - 1902 |
Rectorial Addresses: Delivered in the University of Aberdeen, 1835-1900 University of Aberdeen Visualizzazione completa - 1902 |
Rectorial Addresses: Delivered in the University of Aberdeen, 1835-1900 University of Aberdeen Visualizzazione completa - 1902 |
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Pagina 204 - Yes, we arraign her! but she, The weary Titan, with deaf Ears, and labour-dimm'd eyes, Regarding neither to right Nor left, goes passively by, Staggering on to her goal; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Wellnigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate.
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