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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... land . In England there had been , before the Norman Conquest , an approximation to a feudal system . In the earlier English constitution , the most striking features were the power of the witan , and the common property of the nation ...
... land . In England there had been , before the Norman Conquest , an approximation to a feudal system . In the earlier English constitution , the most striking features were the power of the witan , and the common property of the nation ...
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... Land Act , the no voice whatever in determining the nature of their Disestablishment Act , and the Sunday Liquor Act of Ireland , relations with other communities ; the question of peace or and the Forbes Mackenzie Act of Scotland are ...
... Land Act , the no voice whatever in determining the nature of their Disestablishment Act , and the Sunday Liquor Act of Ireland , relations with other communities ; the question of peace or and the Forbes Mackenzie Act of Scotland are ...
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... Land and Freshwater Shells of the British Islands ( new ed . ) , 1840 ; List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum , 1843 ; Catalogue of Tortoises , & c . , 1844 ; Systematic Catalogue of British Land and Freshwater Shells ...
... Land and Freshwater Shells of the British Islands ( new ed . ) , 1840 ; List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum , 1843 ; Catalogue of Tortoises , & c . , 1844 ; Systematic Catalogue of British Land and Freshwater Shells ...
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... land which formed the geographical centre of the race , of which the greatest length was 250 miles and the greatest breadth 180 , and which had an area , exclusive of Epirus ( 4690 square miles ) but including Euboea ( 1410 square miles ) ...
... land which formed the geographical centre of the race , of which the greatest length was 250 miles and the greatest breadth 180 , and which had an area , exclusive of Epirus ( 4690 square miles ) but including Euboea ( 1410 square miles ) ...
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... land , which were separate from it in the days of ancient Greece , There are traces of earlier sea- beaches at Corinth , and on the coast of the Morea , and at the mouth of the Hellada . The land has gained so much that the pass of ...
... land , which were separate from it in the days of ancient Greece , There are traces of earlier sea- beaches at Corinth , and on the coast of the Morea , and at the mouth of the Hellada . The land has gained so much that the pass of ...
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