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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... extent analogous , but the grammatical structure and the idioms correspond to such an extent that the question is put beyond a doubt ; while , with the exception of a few common vocables , there is little that is analogous between the ...
... extent analogous , but the grammatical structure and the idioms correspond to such an extent that the question is put beyond a doubt ; while , with the exception of a few common vocables , there is little that is analogous between the ...
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... extent the county names . are really Gaelic . The same is true of names of parishes , which are , to a large extent , Gaelic both in the north and in the south . It is to be observed that the Gaelic topography of Scotland differs widely ...
... extent the county names . are really Gaelic . The same is true of names of parishes , which are , to a large extent , Gaelic both in the north and in the south . It is to be observed that the Gaelic topography of Scotland differs widely ...
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... extent homogeneous . There were no elements in it but what were Celtic , as it never really embraced within it the Scandinavian sections . Then the land was governed by its maormors and toiseachs , men who represented the central ...
... extent homogeneous . There were no elements in it but what were Celtic , as it never really embraced within it the Scandinavian sections . Then the land was governed by its maormors and toiseachs , men who represented the central ...
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... extent lighted with gas , and some time ' ago a regular system of water - works was commenced to supply the town with purified and filtered water . There are several Roman Catholic and Greek churches , educa- tional , institutions , a ...
... extent lighted with gas , and some time ' ago a regular system of water - works was commenced to supply the town with purified and filtered water . There are several Roman Catholic and Greek churches , educa- tional , institutions , a ...
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... extent of swing of the needle has to be observed . Where , called the aperiodic state is passed on the contrary , the galvanometer is to be used merely as through . an indicator , particularly in detecting transient currents , a light ...
... extent of swing of the needle has to be observed . Where , called the aperiodic state is passed on the contrary , the galvanometer is to be used merely as through . an indicator , particularly in detecting transient currents , a light ...
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