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on Occurrences 1012%

Its ideal of human love is sacred, because founded on the deeper love of the soul in God.

in Occurrences 540%

If you show such a contempt of death, in deference to a custom founded in mere caprice, can it be wondered that a woman should show it, in the first paroxysms of her grief for the loss of him to whom was devoted every thought, word, and action of her life, and who, next to her God, was the object of her idolatry?

of Occurrences 188%

The founding of the Review was casual.

at Occurrences 58%

They seemed to think the Republic, founded at last upon a solid basis, supported by honest Republicans, would bring untold prosperity not only to the country, but to each individual, and many very modest, unpretending citizens of the small towns saw themselves conseilleurs generaux, deputies, perhaps even ministers.

of Occurrences 20%

Founding of the Library of Venice.

as Occurrences 17%

This conjecture is not so ill founded as at first sight would appear; for the Strait is only about fifty miles wide, is interrupted by three islands, and is jammed with ice nearly every winter.

for Occurrences 17%

He had taken sanctuary in the immense monastery adjoining the Golden Gate in the twelfth region of the city, founded for a thousand monks by the patrician Studius, in the year 463.

about Occurrences 12%

AND SUBJUGATES CARTHAGE B.C. 202 LIVY (Sprung from a colony of Tyre, Carthage, founded about B.C. 800, rapidly developed, through a wonderful system of colonization, into a dominating power, her rule extending through Northwestern Africa and Western Europe.

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And it was there that he had the ambition of carving out a kingdom for himself, and of founding with Lisbeth another dynasty of Froments, and a new Chantebled, covering under the hot sun a tract ten times as extensive as the old one, and peopled with the people of his own children.

under Occurrences 6%

It was really all his own life-work, the little people which had sprung from him, the little kingdom which he had founded under the benevolent sun, that was threatened with sudden ruin.

than Occurrences 6%

But Eveena evidently caught both the sound and the meaning, and I was glad that they should convey to her a confidence which seemed to myself no better founded than her alarms.

from Occurrences 5%

And new cities are founded from time to time, and a new endeavor ever and ever to live, only to live.

to Occurrences 4%

That a Carthusian monastery should have been founded to-day in the midst of the Weald proves, if anything can, that it has not yet wholly lost its character.

before Occurrences 4%

Events on the Adriatic Coasts In the Adriatic sea, at the entrance of which the important and long- contemplated colony of Brundisium had at length been founded before the close of the war with Carthage (510), the supremacy of Rome was from the very first decided.

by Occurrences 3%

But the achievement of Christ in founding by his single will and power a structure so durable and so universal, is like no other achievement which history records.

after Occurrences 3%

The same name was given by Pompey to a town founded after his defeat of Mithridates.

between Occurrences 3%

We find very few monasteries founded after the twelfth century; the great majority, which rose through the kingdom "like exhalations," were founded between the eleventh and twelfth centuries; and in all county histories and authentic records, we scarce find a parish church, with the name of its resident rector recorded, before the twelfth century.

among Occurrences 2%

Colony-founding among ants, with an account of some primitive Australian species.

towards Occurrences 2%

It was founded towards the end of the reign of Henry I. by Editha, a lady of Winchester, and when dissolved in the reign of Henry VIII.

until Occurrences 2%

But Savannah was not founded until 1733, and it contained virtually no negroes prior to 1750.]

throughout Occurrences 2%

Following the unfortunate system of Sulla, Cæsar founded throughout Italy a number of colonies of veterans.

to Occurrences 2%

One hundred great years; the story of the Times-Picayune from its founding to 1940.

through Occurrences 1%

It was at this period that the Church and Hospital of St. Julian were founded through the exertions of Jacques Goure, a native of Pistoia, and of Huet le Lorrain, who were both jugglers.

during Occurrences 1%

Baghdad, the capital of Assyria, was founded during the reign of the Caliph Abu-Jasar-Almansor.

amongst Occurrences 1%

W. Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III.) COLUMB (St.) or St. Columba, was of the family of the kings of Ulster; and with twelve followers founded amongst the Picts and Scots 300 Christian establishments of presbyterian character; that in Iona was founded 563.

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