The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... hand affluents , Though the whole estuary is studded with islands , reefs , and shoals , none of the islands are of ... hands . The chief articles of export are ivory and beeswax ; to which may be added caoutchouc , ebony , and camwood ...
... hand affluents , Though the whole estuary is studded with islands , reefs , and shoals , none of the islands are of ... hands . The chief articles of export are ivory and beeswax ; to which may be added caoutchouc , ebony , and camwood ...
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... hand of a cheating money - changer to his bench , and how , when a guardian who had murdered his ward appealed to ... hands of three favourites - two of them officers , and one a freedman who had followed Galba from Spain . Thus the ...
... hand of a cheating money - changer to his bench , and how , when a guardian who had murdered his ward appealed to ... hands of three favourites - two of them officers , and one a freedman who had followed Galba from Spain . Thus the ...
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... hand . They were as domineering as they were able , and inflamed with hatred of France , just then rising to the dignity of a party principle , they found in Gallatin an enemy ho was both by origin and opinion peculiarly obnoxious to ...
... hand . They were as domineering as they were able , and inflamed with hatred of France , just then rising to the dignity of a party principle , they found in Gallatin an enemy ho was both by origin and opinion peculiarly obnoxious to ...
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... hand over Galle to the English ; but as the Portuguese did not recover Ceylon the town was left to fall into English hands at the conquest of the island in 1796. The name Galle is derived from the Singhalese galla , equivalent to rock ...
... hand over Galle to the English ; but as the Portuguese did not recover Ceylon the town was left to fall into English hands at the conquest of the island in 1796. The name Galle is derived from the Singhalese galla , equivalent to rock ...
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... hand scale until equilibrium in the original position is restored . The weight thus added is proportional to the current strength , so long as the induced magnetism of the magnets can be neglected . This instrument has fallen into ...
... hand scale until equilibrium in the original position is restored . The weight thus added is proportional to the current strength , so long as the induced magnetism of the magnets can be neglected . This instrument has fallen into ...
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