Arts and Sciences: Or, Fourth Division of "The English Encyclopedia", 3. köideCharles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... origin of coined money to the Æginetans , under Pheidon , king of Argos , 895 years before Christ . Elian , in his ' Various History , ' corroborates this statement as far as the Æginetans are mentioned : and our best numismatic ...
... origin of coined money to the Æginetans , under Pheidon , king of Argos , 895 years before Christ . Elian , in his ' Various History , ' corroborates this statement as far as the Æginetans are mentioned : and our best numismatic ...
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... origin . It is the fibre of the husk of the cocoa - nut , bearing such relation to it as the downy fibres of cotton do to the seeds of the cotton - plant . The inhabitants of Ceylon make great use of it . The nut is gathered before ...
... origin . It is the fibre of the husk of the cocoa - nut , bearing such relation to it as the downy fibres of cotton do to the seeds of the cotton - plant . The inhabitants of Ceylon make great use of it . The nut is gathered before ...
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... origin of colleges , as a political institution , to Numa Pompilius ; and Diony- sius mentions an ancient law , passed by Tarquin the Proud , for the purpose of putting down the societies and colleges which were then in existence at ...
... origin of colleges , as a political institution , to Numa Pompilius ; and Diony- sius mentions an ancient law , passed by Tarquin the Proud , for the purpose of putting down the societies and colleges which were then in existence at ...
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... origin of colleges in universities . The colleges in the University of Paris were the first institutions of the kind in Europe , though it is a mistake to suppose them older than the university itself . The terms college and university ...
... origin of colleges in universities . The colleges in the University of Paris were the first institutions of the kind in Europe , though it is a mistake to suppose them older than the university itself . The terms college and university ...
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... origin to the same causes , and to have been founded upon the same plan as those of the Phoenicians . Thucydides ( i . ) says , that " after the Trojan war , and the subsequent conquest of Peloponnesus by the Dorians , Greece being ...
... origin to the same causes , and to have been founded upon the same plan as those of the Phoenicians . Thucydides ( i . ) says , that " after the Trojan war , and the subsequent conquest of Peloponnesus by the Dorians , Greece being ...
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