The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... present meaning , inasmuch as our modern athletes are distinctly defined to be amateurs , in contradistinction to professionals . In fact , the former pursue the agonistic art , and should be styled " agonistics , " if we may be allowed ...
... present meaning , inasmuch as our modern athletes are distinctly defined to be amateurs , in contradistinction to professionals . In fact , the former pursue the agonistic art , and should be styled " agonistics , " if we may be allowed ...
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... present covered by water , is not so much the excavation of its sea - bed , as its segregation from an ocean originally universal by the boundaries that now enclose it ; in other words , not so much the depression of the bottom of its ...
... present covered by water , is not so much the excavation of its sea - bed , as its segregation from an ocean originally universal by the boundaries that now enclose it ; in other words , not so much the depression of the bottom of its ...
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... present time . Important information as to the changes which the sea- bed of the Atlantic has undergone within the later geolo- gical periods , may be gathered from the structure of the islands which lift themselves above its surface ...
... present time . Important information as to the changes which the sea- bed of the Atlantic has undergone within the later geolo- gical periods , may be gathered from the structure of the islands which lift themselves above its surface ...
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... present mode of existence . The distribution of the animals that habitually live in that upper stratum of the ocean whose degree of warmth varies with the latitude , seems mainly determined by temperature . Thus the " right whale " of ...
... present mode of existence . The distribution of the animals that habitually live in that upper stratum of the ocean whose degree of warmth varies with the latitude , seems mainly determined by temperature . Thus the " right whale " of ...
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... present time , and when ( if ever ) the present sea - bed of the Atlantic was in the character of its deep - sea beds , a strong indication dry land , the doctrine first put forth by Prof. Wyville that they originated in a Foraminiferal ...
... present time , and when ( if ever ) the present sea - bed of the Atlantic was in the character of its deep - sea beds , a strong indication dry land , the doctrine first put forth by Prof. Wyville that they originated in a Foraminiferal ...
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