The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... pieces of cloth were made in the course of the year ; but at a later date the making of tobacco pipes became the staple trade , and in the middle of the 18th century ' gave employment to 3000 men . Though this industry has in turn ...
... pieces of cloth were made in the course of the year ; but at a later date the making of tobacco pipes became the staple trade , and in the middle of the 18th century ' gave employment to 3000 men . Though this industry has in turn ...
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... pieces is a view of the Hague , executed in 1651 for the municipality , and now in the town collection of that city . Most of his panels represent reaches of the Rhine , the Waal , and the Maese . But he sometimes sketched the downs of ...
... pieces is a view of the Hague , executed in 1651 for the municipality , and now in the town collection of that city . Most of his panels represent reaches of the Rhine , the Waal , and the Maese . But he sometimes sketched the downs of ...
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... pieces had gained him admission . This society , nominally devoted to conviviality and wit , had also serious literary aims , and was especially zealous to preserve the Tuscan literature pure and untainted by foreign in- fluences . The ...
... pieces had gained him admission . This society , nominally devoted to conviviality and wit , had also serious literary aims , and was especially zealous to preserve the Tuscan literature pure and untainted by foreign in- fluences . The ...
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... pieces now of little importance . GRABOW , a town of Pomerania , Prussia , government district of Stettin and circle of Randow , is situated on the Oder below Stettin , and closely adjoining its suburbs . Shipbuilding and the ...
... pieces now of little importance . GRABOW , a town of Pomerania , Prussia , government district of Stettin and circle of Randow , is situated on the Oder below Stettin , and closely adjoining its suburbs . Shipbuilding and the ...
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... pieces . In 1806 she published Letters from the Mountains , being a Selection from the Author's Correspondence with her Intimate Friends from 1773 to 1804 , which , by its spirited descriptions of Highland scenery , character , and ...
... pieces . In 1806 she published Letters from the Mountains , being a Selection from the Author's Correspondence with her Intimate Friends from 1773 to 1804 , which , by its spirited descriptions of Highland scenery , character , and ...
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