_ _ _ at last Europe learned that the author of the Waverley Novels was the lord of Abbotsford. [3 Letters; N _ _]

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our morals and our religions can quite stamp them out; some of them, doubtless, have a certain survival value _ _ _ _ today. [4 Letters; E _ _ _]

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In a document _ _ famous in Dutch history as Parliament’s Declaration of Rights (1689) in the history of England, [2 Letters; A _]

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Leopold appealed for help; the German states, Protestant as _ _ _ _ as Catholic, responded with money and men; and Louis XIV, abandoning his alliance with Turkey, contributed four thousand soldiers. [4 Letters; W _ _ _]

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Moses Chayim Luzzatto was born in Italy (1707), of parents rich _ _ _ _ _ _ to give him a good education. [6 Letters; E _ _ _ _ H]

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They were caught in a heavy rain on their way _ _ _ _ , and Byron that evening suffered chills and fever. [4 Letters; B _ _ _]

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And since the world honors form as well as substance, art as well as knowledge and power, he achieved, of all Romans, a fame second _ _ _ _ to Caesar’s. [4 Letters; O _ _ _]

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_ _ _ _ _ the year 100 the Christians of Rome, following Syrian and Etruscan traditions, began to bury their dead in catacombs ; probably not for concealment but for the economy of space and expense. [5 Letters; A _ _ _ T]

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On his way _ _ _ _ he was almost killed in a private quarrel. [4 Letters; H _ _ _]

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If his style seems pompous, it fitted the reach and splendor of his theme ; the thousand-year crumbling of the greatest empire the world had _ _ _ _ seen. [4 Letters; E _ _ _]

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Perhaps greatness could grow there again if Asia should _ _ _ _ more become rich, and make Egypt the half-way house of the planet’s trade. [4 Letters; O _ _ _]

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En route it sent to Parliament a declaration formulated chiefly by Cromwell’s able son-in-law Henry Ireton, which condemned the absolutism of Parliament as _ _ better than the King’s, [2 Letters; N _]

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"43 "In this country," wrote a priest of northern France to Innocent III, "the piety of the people is so great that they are _ _ _ _ _ _ ready to send to the stake not only avowed heretics, [6 Letters; A _ _ _ _ S]

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Born among the studious Nambudri Brahmans of Malabar, he rejected the luxuries of the world, and while _ _ _ _ _ a youth became a sannyasi, worshiping unpretentiously the gods of the Hindu pantheon, [5 Letters; S _ _ _ L]

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A year _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Germaine had formed a deeper and more lasting attachment with Louis de Narbonne-Lara. [7 Letters; E _ _ _ _ _ R]

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Venice produced nearly all the leading Italian painters of these years, and three of them inherited _ _ _ _ _ _ _ famous names. [7 Letters; A _ _ _ _ _ Y]

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They were alarmed; remarriage would affect their financial expectations; marriage to a musician ; worse _ _ _ , a Roman Catholic ; would hurt their social standing. [3 Letters; Y _ _]

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I leave it all to you … whom I adore, and who, although _ _ _ more accomplished than I, is another myself. [3 Letters; F _ _]

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In fairness to these lusty priests we should consider that sacerdotal concubinage was not profligacy, but an _ _ _ _ _ _ universal rebellion against the rule of celibacy that had been imposed upon an unwilling clergy by Pope Gregory VII (1074). [6 Letters; A _ _ _ _ T]

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