The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideDay Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith Werner, 1902 |
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... ancient city is a ruined temple ( pro- bably of Juno ) on a hill now crowned by the ruins of the medieval fortress of Castiglione . It is a hexastyle struc ture of uncertain date , uniting the characteristics of Greek and Italian ...
... ancient city is a ruined temple ( pro- bably of Juno ) on a hill now crowned by the ruins of the medieval fortress of Castiglione . It is a hexastyle struc ture of uncertain date , uniting the characteristics of Greek and Italian ...
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... ancient tongue of Wales , Cumbria , and Strathclyde . Across the sea from Wales lies the Isle of Man , where the Gaelic branch of the Celtic held sway , and does to some extent still In Ireland the Gaelic also prevailed , and is still ...
... ancient tongue of Wales , Cumbria , and Strathclyde . Across the sea from Wales lies the Isle of Man , where the Gaelic branch of the Celtic held sway , and does to some extent still In Ireland the Gaelic also prevailed , and is still ...
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... ancient Scottish kings . The preparing and continuing of these pedigrees was one of the duties of the ancient bards and senpachies , who transmitted their knowledge of family history from generation to generation . It may be believed ...
... ancient Scottish kings . The preparing and continuing of these pedigrees was one of the duties of the ancient bards and senpachies , who transmitted their knowledge of family history from generation to generation . It may be believed ...
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... ancient rules , and to resist innovation . Many quotations from the works of Gaius occur in the Digest of Justinian , and so acquired a permanent place in the system of Roman law ; while a comparison of the Institutes of Justinian with ...
... ancient rules , and to resist innovation . Many quotations from the works of Gaius occur in the Digest of Justinian , and so acquired a permanent place in the system of Roman law ; while a comparison of the Institutes of Justinian with ...
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... ancient kingdom , countship , or province in the N.W. angle of Spain , now divided into the provinces of Coruña ... ancients ) is the great port of Coruña ( see CORUNNA ) . The principal port on the western coast of Galicia is that ...
... ancient kingdom , countship , or province in the N.W. angle of Spain , now divided into the provinces of Coruña ... ancients ) is the great port of Coruña ( see CORUNNA ) . The principal port on the western coast of Galicia is that ...
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