The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... less and less highly developed . In such forms as Brachionus it serves as a directive organ in swimming , while in a large number of other forms it is only represented by a pair of terminal styles or flaps . In the sessile forms it ...
... less and less highly developed . In such forms as Brachionus it serves as a directive organ in swimming , while in a large number of other forms it is only represented by a pair of terminal styles or flaps . In the sessile forms it ...
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... less interesting from the pro- fusion of their architectural details than from their magnificent 16th- century stained - glass windows . There are two glass windows in St Godard , and a regular collection in St Patrice ; but the latter ...
... less interesting from the pro- fusion of their architectural details than from their magnificent 16th- century stained - glass windows . There are two glass windows in St Godard , and a regular collection in St Patrice ; but the latter ...
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... less likely than most men to endure the position at Annecy , a young and pretty widow who was herself a of second in ... less entitled to be heard . He had written nothing , and if he was known at all it was as an eccentric vagabond ...
... less likely than most men to endure the position at Annecy , a young and pretty widow who was herself a of second in ... less entitled to be heard . He had written nothing , and if he was known at all it was as an eccentric vagabond ...
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... less than forty ceilings were composed by Rubens , and painted under his direction in the space of two years . All were destroyed by fire in 1718. Sketches . in water- colour were taken some time before the disaster by De Wit , and from ...
... less than forty ceilings were composed by Rubens , and painted under his direction in the space of two years . All were destroyed by fire in 1718. Sketches . in water- colour were taken some time before the disaster by De Wit , and from ...
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... less visible with him than with those masters who , like Spranger , Chr . Schwartz , and Goltzius , stood high in public estimation immediately before his advent . In the midst of the rarest activity as a painter , Rubens was now called ...
... less visible with him than with those masters who , like Spranger , Chr . Schwartz , and Goltzius , stood high in public estimation immediately before his advent . In the midst of the rarest activity as a painter , Rubens was now called ...
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