The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... received extension in Roman times . The Agora thus stood in the region known as Cerameicus . But as the Cerameicus extended for some miles in a N.W. direction , it became divided by the city wall into the outer and the inner Outer ...
... received extension in Roman times . The Agora thus stood in the region known as Cerameicus . But as the Cerameicus extended for some miles in a N.W. direction , it became divided by the city wall into the outer and the inner Outer ...
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... received more advan- tage from judicious excavation in recent years than this western end of the Acropolis . Roman period . Sulla at Athens . gave his name. From the disastrous termination of the Peloponnesian war to the yet more fatal ...
... received more advan- tage from judicious excavation in recent years than this western end of the Acropolis . Roman period . Sulla at Athens . gave his name. From the disastrous termination of the Peloponnesian war to the yet more fatal ...
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... received the surname Atticus , on account of his long resi- dence at Athens , and his intimate acquaintance with Greek literature ) was still a young man , his father died , and he at once took the prudent resolution of transferring ...
... received the surname Atticus , on account of his long resi- dence at Athens , and his intimate acquaintance with Greek literature ) was still a young man , his father died , and he at once took the prudent resolution of transferring ...
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... received his early instruction in music from Nares and Ayrton . In 1783 he was sent to study abroad at the expense of the Prince of Wales , who had been favourably impressed by his skill as a performer on the harpsichord . After ...
... received his early instruction in music from Nares and Ayrton . In 1783 he was sent to study abroad at the expense of the Prince of Wales , who had been favourably impressed by his skill as a performer on the harpsichord . After ...
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... received great encouragement . In the year 1681 he was admitted to the council of the Royal Academy . He died at Paris in 1703. His engravings of Le Brun's Battles of Alexander are regarded as the best of his numerous works " He was ...
... received great encouragement . In the year 1681 he was admitted to the council of the Royal Academy . He died at Paris in 1703. His engravings of Le Brun's Battles of Alexander are regarded as the best of his numerous works " He was ...
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