The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 9. köideHenry G. Allen Company, 1890 |
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... interest constantly increasing towards the catastrophe . Such a tremendous picture of shipwreck as that which Byron has , in wild sportiveness , thrown out in Don Juan , immeasur ably transcends the powers of Falconer , and , indeed ...
... interest constantly increasing towards the catastrophe . Such a tremendous picture of shipwreck as that which Byron has , in wild sportiveness , thrown out in Don Juan , immeasur ably transcends the powers of Falconer , and , indeed ...
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... interest in Lafonea , as the peninsula has since been called , was purchased for £ 30,000 by a company chartered in London for the purpose of turn- ing the islands to more account . The headquarters of the Falkland Island Company are ...
... interest in Lafonea , as the peninsula has since been called , was purchased for £ 30,000 by a company chartered in London for the purpose of turn- ing the islands to more account . The headquarters of the Falkland Island Company are ...
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... interest of his large audiences , he often , by imprudent torrents of denunciation aroused against his doctrines un- necessary opposition ; and it would be difficult to determine whether , on the whole , the cause of the Reformation ...
... interest of his large audiences , he often , by imprudent torrents of denunciation aroused against his doctrines un- necessary opposition ; and it would be difficult to determine whether , on the whole , the cause of the Reformation ...
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... interest in the balloon experiments of the brothers Montgolfier , and published a very complete Description des expériences de la machine aerostatique de MM . Montgolfier , & c . ( 1783 , 1784 ) . He contributed many scientific memoirs ...
... interest in the balloon experiments of the brothers Montgolfier , and published a very complete Description des expériences de la machine aerostatique de MM . Montgolfier , & c . ( 1783 , 1784 ) . He contributed many scientific memoirs ...
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... interest in Faust is believed to have been familiar to Goethe's readers . Further particulars are given awakened by a performance of the old play at Berlin in by Wier in his well known work De præstigiis dæmonum , 1753. He took up the ...
... interest in Faust is believed to have been familiar to Goethe's readers . Further particulars are given awakened by a performance of the old play at Berlin in by Wier in his well known work De præstigiis dæmonum , 1753. He took up the ...
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