The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 11. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... united ; the fertile are followed by the large , succulent fruit that gives the gourds their chief economic value . Many varieties of Cucurbita are under cultivation in tropical and temperate climates , especially in southern Asia ; but ...
... united ; the fertile are followed by the large , succulent fruit that gives the gourds their chief economic value . Many varieties of Cucurbita are under cultivation in tropical and temperate climates , especially in southern Asia ; but ...
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... united in his own person all the leading offices , and used them to give a seemingly legal title to what was essentially military despotism . There is no more interesting constitu- tional study than the chapters in which Tacitus traces ...
... united in his own person all the leading offices , and used them to give a seemingly legal title to what was essentially military despotism . There is no more interesting constitu- tional study than the chapters in which Tacitus traces ...
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... united body ; but even after the Revolution the union was still feeble and fluctuating , and each individual minister was bound to the others only by the tie of common service to the king Under the Hanoverian sovereigns the ministry ...
... united body ; but even after the Revolution the union was still feeble and fluctuating , and each individual minister was bound to the others only by the tie of common service to the king Under the Hanoverian sovereigns the ministry ...
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... United States congress , and in the sepa- whole power of the House of Commons is concentrated rate States of the Union , there are two houses of legis- in its hands . At the same time , it has no place whatever lature . This result has ...
... United States congress , and in the sepa- whole power of the House of Commons is concentrated rate States of the Union , there are two houses of legis- in its hands . At the same time , it has no place whatever lature . This result has ...
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... United States . - The United been to weaken the influence of the large constituencies . States offers a very different solution of the problem . The chief anomalies of the English system are the inequality The American president is at ...
... United States . - The United been to weaken the influence of the large constituencies . States offers a very different solution of the problem . The chief anomalies of the English system are the inequality The American president is at ...
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