The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... Italy and Greece , sacking , pillaging , and destroying . Never , indeed , did the fury even of barbarian conquest discharge itself in a fiercer or more desolating tempest . The Peloponnesian cities were overturned ; Arcadia and ...
... Italy and Greece , sacking , pillaging , and destroying . Never , indeed , did the fury even of barbarian conquest discharge itself in a fiercer or more desolating tempest . The Peloponnesian cities were overturned ; Arcadia and ...
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... Italy and Turkey than over the Adriatic and Black Seas . The greatest diminution occurs in Central Asia , where it exceeds 0-200 inch , and the greatest excess round Iceland , where it exceeds 0-200 inch . It is to the position of Great ...
... Italy and Turkey than over the Adriatic and Black Seas . The greatest diminution occurs in Central Asia , where it exceeds 0-200 inch , and the greatest excess round Iceland , where it exceeds 0-200 inch . It is to the position of Great ...
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... Italy , and by Erasmus , the greatest scholar on our side of the Alps . In truth , it would be as easy to persuade an educated Englishman , that one of Johnson's Ramblers was the work of William Wallace , as to persuade a man like ...
... Italy , and by Erasmus , the greatest scholar on our side of the Alps . In truth , it would be as easy to persuade an educated Englishman , that one of Johnson's Ramblers was the work of William Wallace , as to persuade a man like ...
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... Italy . Rome itself seemed likely to fall before the invader , when his course was arrested by an embassy headed by Pope Leo . Attila at once withdrew from Italy , but the motive which led him to act thus is not known . At the time his ...
... Italy . Rome itself seemed likely to fall before the invader , when his course was arrested by an embassy headed by Pope Leo . Attila at once withdrew from Italy , but the motive which led him to act thus is not known . At the time his ...
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... Italy . On landing he learnt that Cæsar had made him his heir and adopted him into the Julian gens , whereby he acquired the designation of C. Julius Cæsar Octavianus . The inheritance was a perilous one ; his mother and others would ...
... Italy . On landing he learnt that Cæsar had made him his heir and adopted him into the Julian gens , whereby he acquired the designation of C. Julius Cæsar Octavianus . The inheritance was a perilous one ; his mother and others would ...
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