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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... 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 dís- 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 dís- 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 Studie : 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 Studie : u . Kritiken for 1876 . 2 That there were any Jews among Paul's converts here ...
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... character ; Apart from the few carreteras reales or royal roads , which for even in Isaiah's time " the land of Zebulun and are , as elsewhere in the Peninsula , unexceptionable , the the land of Naphtali " is called " Galilee of the ...
... character ; Apart from the few carreteras reales or royal roads , which for even in Isaiah's time " the land of Zebulun and are , as elsewhere in the Peninsula , unexceptionable , the the land of Naphtali " is called " Galilee of the ...
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... character is here celebrated in honour of these rabbis . The site of Hazor , one of the chief towns of Galilee in Bible times , has also been lately recovered . It was situated , according to Josephus , above the Lake Semechonitis ...
... character is here celebrated in honour of these rabbis . The site of Hazor , one of the chief towns of Galilee in Bible times , has also been lately recovered . It was situated , according to Josephus , above the Lake Semechonitis ...
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