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Take a look at both of these: on your left, "The Ruins of the Old Kreuzkirche in Dresden" by "il Canaletto," dates back to 1765; on your right, "Kloste Ruine Eldena" by David Caspar Friedrich dates from 1825.
Helene Bienvenu: Detroit 'Ruin Porn' Goes Commercial -- In a Swatch Helene Bienvenu 2011
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Take a look at both of these: on your left, "The Ruins of the Old Kreuzkirche in Dresden" by "il Canaletto," dates back to 1765; on your right, "Kloste Ruine Eldena" by David Caspar Friedrich dates from 1825.
Helene Bienvenu: Detroit 'Ruin Porn' Goes Commercial -- In a Swatch Helene Bienvenu 2011
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That her Ruine, Life and Health would all lie at his Door; That for his sake she had cast herself out of the Protection of her Friends, and forfeited their Favour and Kindness: That for his sake she had disgrac'd herself in the Face of the World, offended God, and greatly wrong'd her
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As early as 1603 Arthur Dent commented on the proliferation of exegetes in his Ruine of
Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation Benjamin A. Ehlers 1992
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Ruine: 'Tis strangely difficult, and does require Mature Deliberation.
The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris
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_Horror_ and _Ruine_ mark long frightful _Lanes_ behind.
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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_Squabbaws_, which has hitherto been my Support, may one Time or other (if I am not very vigilant) prove my Ruine.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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The Loggingis of the Castelle be clene in Ruine. '
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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Out-Centinels were placed, and all the Men lay that Night on their Arms, for _Qwanaboa_, their Prophetess, foretold another Attack, which she apprehended wou'd prove their Ruine, if not prevented by uncommon Vigilance and
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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Reason: But when I saw the noblest Families, and such whose Ruine was necessary to his own Support, sell their Estates to buy Shares, I look'd upon him as the wisest Minister in the known World; and was lost in
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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