The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... character of this MS . is identical with that of the Irish MSS . , and yet it is mani- festly a Scottish work . There are lives of saints preserved ; one of these , in the Advocates ' Library , is the life of St Findchua . Mr Skene , in ...
... character of this MS . is identical with that of the Irish MSS . , and yet it is mani- festly a Scottish work . There are lives of saints preserved ; one of these , in the Advocates ' Library , is the life of St Findchua . Mr Skene , in ...
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... character of a language and the character of the people who use it ; so that , when the Gaelic disappears , many of the features dis- tinctive of the Highland character will disappear along with it . In some respects this will be cause ...
... character of a language and the character of the people who use it ; so that , when the Gaelic disappears , many of the features dis- tinctive of the Highland character will disappear along with it . In some respects this will be cause ...
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... character of this dialect ; though many German theologians still maintain it to have been Teutonic . See Lightfoot ( Galatians ) , and Grimm in the Studien u . Kritiken for 1876 . 2 That there were any Jews among Paul's converts here ...
... character of this dialect ; though many German theologians still maintain it to have been Teutonic . See Lightfoot ( Galatians ) , and Grimm in the Studien u . Kritiken for 1876 . 2 That there were any Jews among Paul's converts here ...
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... character ; for even in Isaiah's time " the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali " is called " Galilee of the Gen- tiles " ( Isa . ix . 1 ) . After the deportation by Tiglath Pileser ( 2 Kings xv . 29 ) , in which it is to be ...
... character ; for even in Isaiah's time " the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali " is called " Galilee of the Gen- tiles " ( Isa . ix . 1 ) . After the deportation by Tiglath Pileser ( 2 Kings xv . 29 ) , in which it is to be ...
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... character , which is to the pilgrims of the 12th and 13th centuries . said to have been built by Rabbi Nitai . Traces of syna- gogues have also been found on Carmel , and at Tireh , west of Nazareth . It is curious to find the ...
... character , which is to the pilgrims of the 12th and 13th centuries . said to have been built by Rabbi Nitai . Traces of syna- gogues have also been found on Carmel , and at Tireh , west of Nazareth . It is curious to find the ...
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