Little Arthur's History of France: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Second Empire : with Map and Illustrations

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J. Murray, 1899 - 294 páginas
 

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Página 33 - CONTENTS — INTRODUCTORY — PREHISTORIC ORIGINS — ORIENTAL ART AND SPECULATION — THE PHILOSOPHY OF GREECE — THE NEOPLATONISTS — THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD — MEDIAEVALISM — THE PHILOSOPHY OF GERMANY — OF FRANCE — OF ITALY — OF HOLLAND — OF BRITAIN — OF AMERICA.

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