Word: trunk
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...twenty-one universities were united in one central institution, where, as upon a common trunk, the different branches of the system took their rise. This is called the University of France...
Does not this kind of reasoning bear a little heavily upon some who are disposed to think differently of this subject,-for example, upon those who, intending hereafter to take up the study of modern law, happen to consider a knowledge of the nature of the root and trunk of the tree necessary to a proper appreciation of its fruits...