The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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Page 41
... side by side , afterwards by employing a demonstrative at the beginning of the second clause to refer to the whole preceding one . The relative pronoun can be shown to have been in the first instance a demonstrative ; indeed , we can ...
... side by side , afterwards by employing a demonstrative at the beginning of the second clause to refer to the whole preceding one . The relative pronoun can be shown to have been in the first instance a demonstrative ; indeed , we can ...
Page 44
... side of the lower jaw being exceedingly small and almost He married , in London , but on compulsion , the sister of hidden by the overlapping of the gum , while the two his future biographer , Miss Hamilton , who , her brother tells ...
... side of the lower jaw being exceedingly small and almost He married , in London , but on compulsion , the sister of hidden by the overlapping of the gum , while the two his future biographer , Miss Hamilton , who , her brother tells ...
Page 57
... side ( usually the inner , but in Coix and its allies , the outer ) , and an additional covering is not unfrequently provided by the adherence of the persistent palea , or even also of the flowering glume ( " chaff " of cereals ) . From ...
... side ( usually the inner , but in Coix and its allies , the outer ) , and an additional covering is not unfrequently provided by the adherence of the persistent palea , or even also of the flowering glume ( " chaff " of cereals ) . From ...
Page 82
... side to the Gulf of Volo on the other the coast is indented with a succession of natural bays and gulfs . The most important are the Gulfs of Ægina ( Saronicus ) and Lepanto ( Corinthiacus ) , which come in between the Morea and the ...
... side to the Gulf of Volo on the other the coast is indented with a succession of natural bays and gulfs . The most important are the Gulfs of Ægina ( Saronicus ) and Lepanto ( Corinthiacus ) , which come in between the Morea and the ...
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... side of the Ionian Gulf . The moderns have followed the Romans in giving it to the whole people who , from very ... side by side with the Indo - European . From Cyprus the Phoenician navigators proceeded to the southern Two periods of ...
... side of the Ionian Gulf . The moderns have followed the Romans in giving it to the whole people who , from very ... side by side with the Indo - European . From Cyprus the Phoenician navigators proceeded to the southern Two periods of ...
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