The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... Scotland and Ireland there appears to have been a dialect in use among the people as their common speech , and another used by their scholars , the former varying according to locality , and the latter being identical through- Some of ...
... Scotland and Ireland there appears to have been a dialect in use among the people as their common speech , and another used by their scholars , the former varying according to locality , and the latter being identical through- Some of ...
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... Scotland , although not in equal proportions . These names contain a history , could it be evolved . They speak of races distinct and successive , although their testimony as to dates is difficult to read . The county names of Scotland ...
... Scotland , although not in equal proportions . These names contain a history , could it be evolved . They speak of races distinct and successive , although their testimony as to dates is difficult to read . The county names of Scotland ...
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... Scotland ceased to exist . It has been already said to date from the era of charters . But the two eras are pretty nearly identical . Down to the reign of Malcolm III . the Gaelic kingdom appears to have been to a large extent ...
... Scotland ceased to exist . It has been already said to date from the era of charters . But the two eras are pretty nearly identical . Down to the reign of Malcolm III . the Gaelic kingdom appears to have been to a large extent ...
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... Scotland often crossed the Irish Channel , and their works were well known on both sides of it . The 14th and 15th centuries were a period of revival of literature over the whole continent of Europe , and the Celts of Great Britain and ...
... Scotland often crossed the Irish Channel , and their works were well known on both sides of it . The 14th and 15th centuries were a period of revival of literature over the whole continent of Europe , and the Celts of Great Britain and ...
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... Scotland , built on both sides of the river Gala , potatoes which readily grow in the black fertile mud of the about a mile above its confluence with the Tweed , and higher parts , and on the large herds , now become wild , of 33 miles ...
... Scotland , built on both sides of the river Gala , potatoes which readily grow in the black fertile mud of the about a mile above its confluence with the Tweed , and higher parts , and on the large herds , now become wild , of 33 miles ...
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