The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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... attention are based neither upon venerable antiquity nor upon uniformity of origin . The territorial and political development of the country has taken place wholly within the last thousand years ; and the materials out of which it has ...
... attention are based neither upon venerable antiquity nor upon uniformity of origin . The territorial and political development of the country has taken place wholly within the last thousand years ; and the materials out of which it has ...
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... attention on Brandenburg , and in 1388 his pecuniary embarrassments were so great that he gave the electorate in pawn to his cousin Jobst or Jodocus of Moravia . The unfortunate country seemed now to have reached the lowest point ...
... attention on Brandenburg , and in 1388 his pecuniary embarrassments were so great that he gave the electorate in pawn to his cousin Jobst or Jodocus of Moravia . The unfortunate country seemed now to have reached the lowest point ...
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... attention to the northern war then raging between Sweden on the one side and Russia , Poland , and Denmark on the other . Though at first disposed The war of 1866 gave the deathblow to the Germanic 8 HISTORY . PRUSSIA.
... attention to the northern war then raging between Sweden on the one side and Russia , Poland , and Denmark on the other . Though at first disposed The war of 1866 gave the deathblow to the Germanic 8 HISTORY . PRUSSIA.
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... attention of Theophrastus ( ap . Porph . , De Abst . , ii . 26 ) , who was perhaps the first of the Greeks to make observations on the Jews . His description of the temple ritual is not strictly accurate , but he speaks of the wor ...
... attention of Theophrastus ( ap . Porph . , De Abst . , ii . 26 ) , who was perhaps the first of the Greeks to make observations on the Jews . His description of the temple ritual is not strictly accurate , but he speaks of the wor ...
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... attention are limited , so that we But this difficulty is surely in the first instance due to the very cannot alter the distribution of attention at any moment without altering the contents of consciousness at that moment . ingly ...
... attention are limited , so that we But this difficulty is surely in the first instance due to the very cannot alter the distribution of attention at any moment without altering the contents of consciousness at that moment . ingly ...
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