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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... expression a large quantity of a bland oil , which is used for the same purposes as that of the poppy and olive . The " mammoth " gourds of English and American gardeners appear to belong to this species , or to hybrids between it and ...
... expression a large quantity of a bland oil , which is used for the same purposes as that of the poppy and olive . The " mammoth " gourds of English and American gardeners appear to belong to this species , or to hybrids between it and ...
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... expression which characterizes all the intellectual products of Greece , it lacks the quality of persistent progress . Then there was no approximation to a national government , even of the federal type . The varying confederacies and ...
... expression which characterizes all the intellectual products of Greece , it lacks the quality of persistent progress . Then there was no approximation to a national government , even of the federal type . The varying confederacies and ...
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... expression of opinion have almost entirely ceased , and practically the only instrument of control now left is the law of libel . Under the influence of the judges , that law has , during the period in question , been uniformly ...
... expression of opinion have almost entirely ceased , and practically the only instrument of control now left is the law of libel . Under the influence of the judges , that law has , during the period in question , been uniformly ...
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... expressions " horseflesh " and " flesh of a horse , " are equally intelligible to an Englishman and therefore are equally ... expression depends upon its intelligibility , that is to say , upon the ordinary use and custom of a particular ...
... expressions " horseflesh " and " flesh of a horse , " are equally intelligible to an Englishman and therefore are equally ... expression depends upon its intelligibility , that is to say , upon the ordinary use and custom of a particular ...
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... expressing the relations of grammar when re- course is not had to composition or simple position . Modes of A ... expression of them . These relations may be regarded lang from various points of view . In the polysynthetic lan ...
... expressing the relations of grammar when re- course is not had to composition or simple position . Modes of A ... expression of them . These relations may be regarded lang from various points of view . In the polysynthetic lan ...
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