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... killed by a fall from a tree taking their revenge by cutting the tree down and scattering it in chips , we find a continuity of idea in the action of the court of justice 1 Matthew Arnold , Empedocles on Etna . held at the Prytaneum in ...
... killed by a fall from a tree taking their revenge by cutting the tree down and scattering it in chips , we find a continuity of idea in the action of the court of justice 1 Matthew Arnold , Empedocles on Etna . held at the Prytaneum in ...
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... kill and to see killed that he became chaplain to a regiment for the sake of wit- nessing the slaughter in battle . But still more ghastly are the notorious cases of Elizabeth , a Hungarian lady of title , who inveigled girls into her ...
... kill and to see killed that he became chaplain to a regiment for the sake of wit- nessing the slaughter in battle . But still more ghastly are the notorious cases of Elizabeth , a Hungarian lady of title , who inveigled girls into her ...
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... kill and plunder . Attacking lonely houses , they devoured all the human beings and every other animal found therein . " They burst into the beer- cellars and there they empty the tuns of beer or mead , and pile up the empty casks one ...
... kill and plunder . Attacking lonely houses , they devoured all the human beings and every other animal found therein . " They burst into the beer- cellars and there they empty the tuns of beer or mead , and pile up the empty casks one ...
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... sword or club , they aroused in the hysterically disposed a like mad- ness , which led to terrible crimes , and which died away only as the killing of one's fellows became less MYTH MYTH : 87 : ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH .
... sword or club , they aroused in the hysterically disposed a like mad- ness , which led to terrible crimes , and which died away only as the killing of one's fellows became less MYTH MYTH : 87 : ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH .
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Edward Clodd. away only as the killing of one's fellows became less the business of life . History supplies many examples of strange mental epidemics which sped through towns and provinces in medieval times . They were induced by ...
Edward Clodd. away only as the killing of one's fellows became less the business of life . History supplies many examples of strange mental epidemics which sped through towns and provinces in medieval times . They were induced by ...
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