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suite Accordingly, 'the most civilised nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Europe; and in the rude institutions of these barbarians we may still distinguish the original principles of...

started by owen11158 on 08 Jan 15 no follow-up yet

Paris, Présence africaine.Comte, Auguste, 1830-1842 Cours de philosophie positive. Paris, 6 vol.Craemer, Willy de, 1977 The Jamaa and the Church. A Bantu Catholic Movement in Za?re. Oxford, Clarend...

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They kill us and we kill them, for they are jealous of their shrine, which none may visit save by permission, to consult the Oracle and to make prayer or offering in times of calamity, when a Khan ...

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The Khania need not be described. She was as she had been in the chambers of the Gate, only more weary looking; indeed her eyes had a haunted air and it was easy to see that the events of the previ...

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Moreover, the present Khania, our hostess, was the last of the direct line of rulers, her husband and cousin having less of the blood royal in his veins, and as such the people were attached to her...

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6 They differed in attainments from their more polished relatives; but were not in all things their inferiors. It is unjust to degrade those with the appellation of barbarians, in the present meani...

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in the possession of the elements of primitive German civilisation and the common germs of German institutions. … It is to ancient Germany that we must look for the earliest traces of our forefathe...

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For Prussia came so near to triumph because a vague belief in a Teutonic brotherhood led us to regard the defeat of the Poles and the French as the inevitable fall of inferior and decadent races. 5...

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Do you remember nothing?;Nothing, nothing at all, I answered earnestly.quot;But what of my friend?He also is better. The Khania Atene nurses him.Atene? I said. quot;That is an old Egyptian name. It...

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