The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... Nearly all of these sculptures are in the British Museum , and the entire series has been recently made complete by casts from the other fragments , and arranged in the order of the original design . The marvellous beauty of these ...
... Nearly all of these sculptures are in the British Museum , and the entire series has been recently made complete by casts from the other fragments , and arranged in the order of the original design . The marvellous beauty of these ...
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... nearly 29 in height , with an intercolumniation of 7 feet , except between the two central columns , which were 13 feet apart , in order to furnish space for a carriage - way . Behind this Doric colonnade was a vestibule 43 feet in ...
... nearly 29 in height , with an intercolumniation of 7 feet , except between the two central columns , which were 13 feet apart , in order to furnish space for a carriage - way . Behind this Doric colonnade was a vestibule 43 feet in ...
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... nearly every English and Irish meeting . 16 b is the usual weight of the missile except in Ireland , where a 42 - b , and sometimes a 56 - b weight are put , though in a very un- satisfactory fashion . Athletic sports may be practised ...
... nearly every English and Irish meeting . 16 b is the usual weight of the missile except in Ireland , where a 42 - b , and sometimes a 56 - b weight are put , though in a very un- satisfactory fashion . Athletic sports may be practised ...
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... nearly 290 millions of cubic miles of water , which is therefore about thirty times the mass of the land . From the computation of Keith Johnston , it appears that , " if we conceive an equalising line , which , passing around the globe ...
... nearly 290 millions of cubic miles of water , which is therefore about thirty times the mass of the land . From the computation of Keith Johnston , it appears that , " if we conceive an equalising line , which , passing around the globe ...
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... nearly its original temperature . But as the stream spreads out superficially , its superheated stratum becomes proportionally thinner , and will consequently be more and more rapidly cooled down by the superincumbent atmosphere . Even ...
... nearly its original temperature . But as the stream spreads out superficially , its superheated stratum becomes proportionally thinner , and will consequently be more and more rapidly cooled down by the superincumbent atmosphere . Even ...
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