The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... interest shown and the attendance of spectators being little , if anything , less than at the annual boat race between the same two seats of learning . Two years later the annual amateur cham- pionship meeting was founded in London ...
... interest shown and the attendance of spectators being little , if anything , less than at the annual boat race between the same two seats of learning . Two years later the annual amateur cham- pionship meeting was founded in London ...
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... interest he might have in lands for his own life or a term of years . For murder , the offender forfeited to the Crown the profit of his freeholds during life , and in the case of lands held in fee - simple , the lands themselves for a ...
... interest he might have in lands for his own life or a term of years . For murder , the offender forfeited to the Crown the profit of his freeholds during life , and in the case of lands held in fee - simple , the lands themselves for a ...
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... interest . ATTERBURY , FRANCIS , a man who holds a con- spicuous place in the political , ecclesiastical , and literary history of England , was born in the year 1662 , at Middle- ton in Buckinghamshire , a parish of which his father ...
... interest . ATTERBURY , FRANCIS , a man who holds a con- spicuous place in the political , ecclesiastical , and literary history of England , was born in the year 1662 , at Middle- ton in Buckinghamshire , a parish of which his father ...
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... interest for him ; he was emphatically a man of literature . Of his writings none are extant , but we have notices of two , one a Greek history of Cicero's consulship , the other , in Latin , on Roman annals , a subject to which he had ...
... interest for him ; he was emphatically a man of literature . Of his writings none are extant , but we have notices of two , one a Greek history of Cicero's consulship , the other , in Latin , on Roman annals , a subject to which he had ...
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... interest in reference to many points in the ecclesiastical history of the time , and his relation to contemporary theologians like Jerome . They have neither the liveliness nor variety of interest , however , which belong to the letters ...
... interest in reference to many points in the ecclesiastical history of the time , and his relation to contemporary theologians like Jerome . They have neither the liveliness nor variety of interest , however , which belong to the letters ...
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