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our Southern States, the southern states of the United States of America.
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feudal society . In medieval Europe, society was based on the relation between vassal and superior arising from the holding of lands in feud.
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clergy, the body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity.
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Napoleonic wars . The wars against the encroachments of Napoleon were fought in the years between 1799 and 1815.
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twenty-seven years old, that is, since 1870.
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meteorology, the science or the branch of physics treating of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially its variations of heat and moisture, its winds and storms, and others.
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entwined, twisted or wreathed together or around; included.
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mythologies . Mythology treats of myths, which are stories, the origins of which are forgotten, that ostensibly relate historical events, which are usually of such character as to serve to some practice, belief, institution, or natural phenomenon. A myth may be a person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable. Here, the reference is to the myths of Greece and Rome, and those of the Teutonic tribes—to such stories as those of Zeus and his Olympian comrades.
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Old Testament stories, stories from the Old Testament of the Bible, such as the story of the crossing of the Red Sea, that of the sun and moon standing still at the command of Joshua and others too numerous to relate.
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fairy tales, as those given in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales.
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historical romances, those of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, of Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers, of Æneas and his wanderings and many others.
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perverse, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked;perverted.
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infiltration, penetrating gradually.
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porridge, a food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance in water or milk to form a broth or thin pudding.
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assimilate, absorb or appropriate as nourishment.
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urban, of or pertaining to a city or town.
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precept, any commandment, instruction, or order intended as a rule of action or conduct, especially a command respecting moral conduct.
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industry, habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit; constant or close application or attention, especially to some business or enterprise;hard work.
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veracity, that which is true; habitual observance of truth.
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disinterestedness, freedom from selfish motive; not biased or prejudiced.
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savage, an uncivilized person; a person of brutal cruelty or uncontrolled passions or barbarous ignorance.
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imperatively, urgently.
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now attained, that which we now have.
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now attainable, that which we now can have, regardless as to whether we have it or have it not at the present.
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