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A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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a people of Etruria, said to have been originally a Macedonian been originally a colony colony. When they were besieged by the schoolmaster went out at the gates of the city with his pupils, and offered to betray them into the hands of the enemy, that, by such a possession, he might easily oblige the place to surrender. Camillus heard the proposal with indignation, and ordered the man to be stripped naked, and town by the very pupils whom his perfidy would have betrayed. This instance of magnanimity operated upon the people so powerfully, that they surrendered to the

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