The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... continued especially to engage his attention during his undergraduate course , from 1825 to 1828 , at the universities of Leipsic and Göttingen . In 1830 he entered the public service of the duchy of Altenburg , where he attained to the ...
... continued especially to engage his attention during his undergraduate course , from 1825 to 1828 , at the universities of Leipsic and Göttingen . In 1830 he entered the public service of the duchy of Altenburg , where he attained to the ...
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... continued increasing , and placed his progeny in a highly distinguished worldly position . 2. TADDEO GADDI ( about 1300-1366 , or later ) , son of Gaddo , was born in Florence , and became one of Giotto's most industrious assistants for ...
... continued increasing , and placed his progeny in a highly distinguished worldly position . 2. TADDEO GADDI ( about 1300-1366 , or later ) , son of Gaddo , was born in Florence , and became one of Giotto's most industrious assistants for ...
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... continued to make incursions over a wide stretch of country . Ethnographically , they were quite distinct from the negro races , and indeed probably belonged to the great Berber race , which still forms so important an element in the ...
... continued to make incursions over a wide stretch of country . Ethnographically , they were quite distinct from the negro races , and indeed probably belonged to the great Berber race , which still forms so important an element in the ...
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... continued to make use of their ancient dialect , were quite able to understand the then almost universally diffused Greck ; and some of them , both Jews and Gentiles , 2 almost immediately began to receive Paul's doctrine with favour ...
... continued to make use of their ancient dialect , were quite able to understand the then almost universally diffused Greck ; and some of them , both Jews and Gentiles , 2 almost immediately began to receive Paul's doctrine with favour ...
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... continued to conform his public teachings in the main to Ptolemaic principles , until the discovery of a novel and potent implement of research placed at his command start- ling and hitherto unsuspected evidence as to the constitu- tion ...
... continued to conform his public teachings in the main to Ptolemaic principles , until the discovery of a novel and potent implement of research placed at his command start- ling and hitherto unsuspected evidence as to the constitu- tion ...
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