The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideLittle, Brown, 1902 |
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Page xiii
... interest which they excited when George Smith deciphered their contents in 1872 has to some extent abated , but this is only because scholars are now pretty generally agreed as to their bearing on the corresponding parts of Genesis ...
... interest which they excited when George Smith deciphered their contents in 1872 has to some extent abated , but this is only because scholars are now pretty generally agreed as to their bearing on the corresponding parts of Genesis ...
Page xiv
... interest attaches to the records of the Assyrian and Babylonian kings when compared with the historical books of the Old Testament . For some centuries the inhabitants of Palestine were subject to periodical attacks from the warlike ...
... interest attaches to the records of the Assyrian and Babylonian kings when compared with the historical books of the Old Testament . For some centuries the inhabitants of Palestine were subject to periodical attacks from the warlike ...
Page xx
... interest to intelligent people - had been brought home to us by the new treasures already at our disposal . Strangely enough , there were still obstacles - pecuniary or political- to be faced by those expert archæologists who had best ...
... interest to intelligent people - had been brought home to us by the new treasures already at our disposal . Strangely enough , there were still obstacles - pecuniary or political- to be faced by those expert archæologists who had best ...
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... interest . Oakwoods cemetery is a monument to the memory of the Union soldiers of the Civil War , and also one to the memory of the Confederate soldiers who died while prisoners in Camp Douglas in the suburbs of Chicago between 1861 and ...
... interest . Oakwoods cemetery is a monument to the memory of the Union soldiers of the Civil War , and also one to the memory of the Confederate soldiers who died while prisoners in Camp Douglas in the suburbs of Chicago between 1861 and ...
Page 11
... interest per annum - the total note issue for which the banks were responsible being thus raised to 40,723,089 pesos ( £ 3,054,230 ) . In addition , the treasury put in circulation at the same date notes amounting to 17,693,890 pesos ...
... interest per annum - the total note issue for which the banks were responsible being thus raised to 40,723,089 pesos ( £ 3,054,230 ) . In addition , the treasury put in circulation at the same date notes amounting to 17,693,890 pesos ...
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