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ARTES 18372 LIBRARY VERITAS SCIENTIA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TUEBOR SI - QUARIS PENINSULAM - AME NAM CIRCUMSPICE 4 AP のろび THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW . MARCH -
ARTES 18372 LIBRARY VERITAS SCIENTIA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TUEBOR SI - QUARIS PENINSULAM - AME NAM CIRCUMSPICE 4 AP のろび THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW . MARCH -
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... UNIVERSITIES , 1. A Plea for the Abolition of Tests in the University of Oxford . By Goldwin Smith . Oxford : Wheeler and Day . London Hamilton & Co. 1864 . 2. An Answer to Professor Goldwin Smith's Plea for the Abolition of Tests . By ...
... UNIVERSITIES , 1. A Plea for the Abolition of Tests in the University of Oxford . By Goldwin Smith . Oxford : Wheeler and Day . London Hamilton & Co. 1864 . 2. An Answer to Professor Goldwin Smith's Plea for the Abolition of Tests . By ...
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... University of Madrid , who has attracted much atten- tion by a series of lectures at the Ateneo , upon the civilisa- tion of the first five centuries , represents the opinions of the Democratic Progressistas ; while the Discusion is the ...
... University of Madrid , who has attracted much atten- tion by a series of lectures at the Ateneo , upon the civilisa- tion of the first five centuries , represents the opinions of the Democratic Progressistas ; while the Discusion is the ...
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... University of Madrid , that the instruction in Latin usually given in Spanish schools , was extremely imperfect . The Universities are ten in number , but of these Madrid is the only one which is organized on the scale of a great ...
... University of Madrid , that the instruction in Latin usually given in Spanish schools , was extremely imperfect . The Universities are ten in number , but of these Madrid is the only one which is organized on the scale of a great ...
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... University , with all the apparatus of higher , secondary , and primary instruction which . it sets in motion , is to be found in a convenient little volume , the Memoria - Anuario de la Universidad Central . On paper at least ...
... University , with all the apparatus of higher , secondary , and primary instruction which . it sets in motion , is to be found in a convenient little volume , the Memoria - Anuario de la Universidad Central . On paper at least ...
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