The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... century , which replaced an earlier structure of the 15th , and which is not only remarkable for its dimensions , 345 feet in length and 150 feet broad , but possesses a celebrated organ , and a series of splendid painted windows ...
... century , which replaced an earlier structure of the 15th , and which is not only remarkable for its dimensions , 345 feet in length and 150 feet broad , but possesses a celebrated organ , and a series of splendid painted windows ...
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... century the natural champions of monarchical power were in opposition . Their vast local influence , which might otherwise have gone to aggrandize the influence of the crown , was really employed to thwart it . There thus sprang up in ...
... century the natural champions of monarchical power were in opposition . Their vast local influence , which might otherwise have gone to aggrandize the influence of the crown , was really employed to thwart it . There thus sprang up in ...
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... century ; that its guiding and essential import was an assertion for the British Church of an independent derivation of its Christi- anity direct from Palestine , and not through Rome ; that the conception was embodied in a book ...
... century ; that its guiding and essential import was an assertion for the British Church of an independent derivation of its Christi- anity direct from Palestine , and not through Rome ; that the conception was embodied in a book ...
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... century , it fell to the lot of the Vandals . Under the caliphs of Cordova , onwards from the 8th ultimately became the seat of a provincial government , which , after century , the town of Granada rapidly gained in importance , and the ...
... century , it fell to the lot of the Vandals . Under the caliphs of Cordova , onwards from the 8th ultimately became the seat of a provincial government , which , after century , the town of Granada rapidly gained in importance , and the ...
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... Century . GRAPE . See VINE . GRAPHITE . See CARBON , vol . v . p . 86 , and FURNACE , vol . ix . p . 843 . GRAPHOTYPE is a name which has been given to an ingenious process of autographic engraving , by which typo- graphic printing ...
... Century . GRAPE . See VINE . GRAPHITE . See CARBON , vol . v . p . 86 , and FURNACE , vol . ix . p . 843 . GRAPHOTYPE is a name which has been given to an ingenious process of autographic engraving , by which typo- graphic printing ...
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