The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... evidence in his works it may be gathered that he flourished in the reigns of the emperors Hadrian , Antoninus Pius , Marcus Aurelius , and Commodus . His works were thus composed between the years 130 and 180 , at the time when the ...
... evidence in his works it may be gathered that he flourished in the reigns of the emperors Hadrian , Antoninus Pius , Marcus Aurelius , and Commodus . His works were thus composed between the years 130 and 180 , at the time when the ...
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... evidence goes to show that it cannot have lasted more than six months , and that it pro- bably came to an end within a much shorter interval . Resuming the journey by Mysia and the Troad , Paul and his companion proceeded to " Macedonia ...
... evidence goes to show that it cannot have lasted more than six months , and that it pro- bably came to an end within a much shorter interval . Resuming the journey by Mysia and the Troad , Paul and his companion proceeded to " Macedonia ...
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... evidence as to the constitu- tion and mutual relations of the heavenly bodies . Galileo was not the original inventor of the telescope.1 That 1 The word telescope , from 7îλe , far , σkоnéw , to view , was invented by Demiscianus , an ...
... evidence as to the constitu- tion and mutual relations of the heavenly bodies . Galileo was not the original inventor of the telescope.1 That 1 The word telescope , from 7îλe , far , σkоnéw , to view , was invented by Demiscianus , an ...
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... evidence , and Urban was far too sagacious to give any permanent credit to it . It was at once evident that the whole tenor of this re- markable work was in flagrant contradiction with the edict passed sixteen years before its ...
... evidence , and Urban was far too sagacious to give any permanent credit to it . It was at once evident that the whole tenor of this re- markable work was in flagrant contradiction with the edict passed sixteen years before its ...
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... evidence that the Gare - fowl's winter - plumage differed from that of the breeding - season just as is ordinarily 1 The name first appears , and in this form , in the Account of Hirta [ St Kilda ] and Rona , & c . , by the Lord ...
... evidence that the Gare - fowl's winter - plumage differed from that of the breeding - season just as is ordinarily 1 The name first appears , and in this form , in the Account of Hirta [ St Kilda ] and Rona , & c . , by the Lord ...
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