The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... hand of Pericles . That an old temple stood on the site afterwards occupied by the Par- thenon is proved , less by the doubtful expressions of Hero- dotus ( viii . 51 , 55 ) , and the testimony of later compilers like Hesychius , than ...
... hand of Pericles . That an old temple stood on the site afterwards occupied by the Par- thenon is proved , less by the doubtful expressions of Hero- dotus ( viii . 51 , 55 ) , and the testimony of later compilers like Hesychius , than ...
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... hands of Rome ; this was the siege and plunder of the city by Sulla in the Mithridatic War . Yielding to the threats of ... hand . The sculptured figures of the winds are in good preservation , though of a declining period of art . They ...
... hands of Rome ; this was the siege and plunder of the city by Sulla in the Mithridatic War . Yielding to the threats of ... hand . The sculptured figures of the winds are in good preservation , though of a declining period of art . They ...
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... hands of the Turks until the termination of the revolutionary war . In 1812 Athens could boast of a population of 12,000 dition . souls , but during the war the greater part of ... hand , the term was restricted so as to exclude ATH - ATH 11.
... hands of the Turks until the termination of the revolutionary war . In 1812 Athens could boast of a population of 12,000 dition . souls , but during the war the greater part of ... hand , the term was restricted so as to exclude ATH - ATH 11.
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... hand , the projection of the American | as equally inapplicable to any other valley of similar width coast at Newfoundland answers to the Bay of Biscay . and depth.1 Further south , the great rounded prominence of Northern Africa ...
... hand , the projection of the American | as equally inapplicable to any other valley of similar width coast at Newfoundland answers to the Bay of Biscay . and depth.1 Further south , the great rounded prominence of Northern Africa ...
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... hand , graduates insensibly , both as to temperature and rate of movement , into the general sur- face - water of the Atlantic . It is when passing Sandy Hook that the Gulf Stream takes its decided turn east- wards , —this change in its ...
... hand , graduates insensibly , both as to temperature and rate of movement , into the general sur- face - water of the Atlantic . It is when passing Sandy Hook that the Gulf Stream takes its decided turn east- wards , —this change in its ...
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