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... period opened the fauna and flora had assumed a decidedly modern aspect . Among invertebrates the ammonites , which were characteristic of the Mesozoic era , declined in importances , while bivalves , such as the oyster , Saccharose ...
... period opened the fauna and flora had assumed a decidedly modern aspect . Among invertebrates the ammonites , which were characteristic of the Mesozoic era , declined in importances , while bivalves , such as the oyster , Saccharose ...
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... period of its greatest pros- perity the community contained nearly 300 per- sons , but about the time of the Revolution it began to decline , and few traces now remain . Pop . , 1900 , 2452 ; 1910 , 3192. Consult Gibbons , Pennsylvania ...
... period of its greatest pros- perity the community contained nearly 300 per- sons , but about the time of the Revolution it began to decline , and few traces now remain . Pop . , 1900 , 2452 ; 1910 , 3192. Consult Gibbons , Pennsylvania ...
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... period it was , from one point of view , distinguished from lyric poetry by being recited or rather given in recitative instead of being sung , and from dramatic poetry by being simply narrated instead of acted . But there is a further ...
... period it was , from one point of view , distinguished from lyric poetry by being recited or rather given in recitative instead of being sung , and from dramatic poetry by being simply narrated instead of acted . But there is a further ...
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... period of spontaneous composition of epic songs ; ( 2 ) those which , like the Eneid , the Gerusalemme liberata , and Paradise Lost , are the creation of highly cultivated and widely read minds , consciously using a long - established ...
... period of spontaneous composition of epic songs ; ( 2 ) those which , like the Eneid , the Gerusalemme liberata , and Paradise Lost , are the creation of highly cultivated and widely read minds , consciously using a long - established ...
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... period in the history of a people , and their number is still increasing . It must suffice to mention a few of these . In India the renaissance of literary activity in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. produced those epics which , as ...
... period in the history of a people , and their number is still increasing . It must suffice to mention a few of these . In India the renaissance of literary activity in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. produced those epics which , as ...
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