The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... chief drawback under which Roumanian agriculture labours— namely , the liability to drought . Forests . Besides forming a valuable article of export maize furnishes the chief food of the people . The great body of Roumanians seldom eat ...
... chief drawback under which Roumanian agriculture labours— namely , the liability to drought . Forests . Besides forming a valuable article of export maize furnishes the chief food of the people . The great body of Roumanians seldom eat ...
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... chief books . His religious unorthodoxy was condoned because he never scoffed ; his political heresies , after their first effect was over , seemed harmless from the very want of logic and practical spirit in them , while part at least ...
... chief books . His religious unorthodoxy was condoned because he never scoffed ; his political heresies , after their first effect was over , seemed harmless from the very want of logic and practical spirit in them , while part at least ...
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... chief industrial cities in South Tyrol , and , after Trent , the chief seat of the Tyrolese silk industry , is situated on the left bank of the Adige ( Etsch ) , in the fertile Val Lagarina , 35 miles north of Verona and 100 miles south ...
... chief industrial cities in South Tyrol , and , after Trent , the chief seat of the Tyrolese silk industry , is situated on the left bank of the Adige ( Etsch ) , in the fertile Val Lagarina , 35 miles north of Verona and 100 miles south ...
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... chief reasons for this state of matters . The imports of foreign metals in the rough and of coal are steadily increasing , while the exports , never otherwise than insignificant , show no advance . The chief mining districts of Russia ...
... chief reasons for this state of matters . The imports of foreign metals in the rough and of coal are steadily increasing , while the exports , never otherwise than insignificant , show no advance . The chief mining districts of Russia ...
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... chief manufactures in European Russia ( apart from Poland and Finland ) , and their yearly production in 1882 in millions of roubles , were as follows : -cotton yarn and cottons , 208 6 ; other textile industries , 1035 ; metal wares ...
... chief manufactures in European Russia ( apart from Poland and Finland ) , and their yearly production in 1882 in millions of roubles , were as follows : -cotton yarn and cottons , 208 6 ; other textile industries , 1035 ; metal wares ...
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