The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... equal to her prestige . The buildings connected with the name of Cimon had been chiefly for utility or defence ; those of Pericles were mainly ornamental . The first edifice completed by him seems to have been the Odeium , on the E. of ...
... equal to her prestige . The buildings connected with the name of Cimon had been chiefly for utility or defence ; those of Pericles were mainly ornamental . The first edifice completed by him seems to have been the Odeium , on the E. of ...
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... equal tribute of servile adulation . But whatever decoration the city might owe to royal vanity or munificence , her connection with these foreign potentates brought her far more of injury than advantage . She became entangled in their ...
... equal tribute of servile adulation . But whatever decoration the city might owe to royal vanity or munificence , her connection with these foreign potentates brought her far more of injury than advantage . She became entangled in their ...
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... equal advantage . The date of the oldest religious foundation in the peninsula is not clearly ascertained , and the traditional chronology of the monks themselves can hardly be trusted . A bull of Romanus Lecapenus speaks of the ...
... equal advantage . The date of the oldest religious foundation in the peninsula is not clearly ascertained , and the traditional chronology of the monks themselves can hardly be trusted . A bull of Romanus Lecapenus speaks of the ...
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... equal to that of the subsidence of its base , the platform has been kept up to the sea - level . The slight elevation which has raised its highest portion above that level may not impro- bably have taken place in connection with the ...
... equal to that of the subsidence of its base , the platform has been kept up to the sea - level . The slight elevation which has raised its highest portion above that level may not impro- bably have taken place in connection with the ...
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... equal to a square inch , it will contain 30 cubic inches of mercury ; and since one cubic inch of mercury contains 34267 grains , the weight of 30 cubic inches will be nearly 147304 lb avoirdupois . Thus the pressure of the atmosphere ...
... equal to a square inch , it will contain 30 cubic inches of mercury ; and since one cubic inch of mercury contains 34267 grains , the weight of 30 cubic inches will be nearly 147304 lb avoirdupois . Thus the pressure of the atmosphere ...
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