The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... rise , the greatness , the decline of the city may be read in the history of its buildings . There seems little reason to doubt that the earliest settle- ent ment on Athenian soil was upon the cliff afterwards famous as the Acropolis ...
... rise , the greatness , the decline of the city may be read in the history of its buildings . There seems little reason to doubt that the earliest settle- ent ment on Athenian soil was upon the cliff afterwards famous as the Acropolis ...
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... rise to the legend ascribing to Theseus the ovvоikioμos or consolidation of Attica . It would be natural for legend ... rising of Cylon ( Herod . , v . 71 ; Thucyd . , i . 126 ; Pausan . , i . 28 ) . The narratives of that event imply ...
... rise to the legend ascribing to Theseus the ovvоikioμos or consolidation of Attica . It would be natural for legend ... rising of Cylon ( Herod . , v . 71 ; Thucyd . , i . 126 ; Pausan . , i . 28 ) . The narratives of that event imply ...
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... rise to the meetings now annually held in the two sieges , the first by William III . in person , which picturesque College Park at Dublin . The Irish civil service failed , and the second by General Ginkell , who , in the face meeting ...
... rise to the meetings now annually held in the two sieges , the first by William III . in person , which picturesque College Park at Dublin . The Irish civil service failed , and the second by General Ginkell , who , in the face meeting ...
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... rise up from the eastern slope of the basin , where it is progressively shallowing towards its continental shore - line . Further out , in mid- ocean , lies the group of the Azores , which also is volcanic , and rises from the plateau ...
... rise up from the eastern slope of the basin , where it is progressively shallowing towards its continental shore - line . Further out , in mid- ocean , lies the group of the Azores , which also is volcanic , and rises from the plateau ...
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... rising to 14 ° 5 at Fruholm near the North Cape . And it is also a very significant fact ( ascertained by the care- ful inquiries of Mr Buchan ) , that while the summer isotherms cross the British Islands nearly east and west ( the ...
... rising to 14 ° 5 at Fruholm near the North Cape . And it is also a very significant fact ( ascertained by the care- ful inquiries of Mr Buchan ) , that while the summer isotherms cross the British Islands nearly east and west ( the ...
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