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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... century before our era , the distinction between the a quarrel . The Gauls apparently found a difficulty in pro- k - sound and the g - sound became lost at Rome : apparently ducing the initial German sound , and ( there being no the ...
... century before our era , the distinction between the a quarrel . The Gauls apparently found a difficulty in pro- k - sound and the g - sound became lost at Rome : apparently ducing the initial German sound , and ( there being no the ...
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... century . Of this century is the only Gaelic charter that we possess , which is printed , with a translation , in the National Records of Scotland . Of this age also are numerous medical MSS . Some of these belonged to the famous family ...
... century . Of this century is the only Gaelic charter that we possess , which is printed , with a translation , in the National Records of Scotland . Of this age also are numerous medical MSS . Some of these belonged to the famous family ...
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... century was published Gillies's Collection of Gaelic Poetry , one of the best collections we possess , containing , as it does , many authentic pieces of Ossianic poetry taken down when the old clan system was still in force in the ...
... century was published Gillies's Collection of Gaelic Poetry , one of the best collections we possess , containing , as it does , many authentic pieces of Ossianic poetry taken down when the old clan system was still in force in the ...
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... century Pope John VIII . bestowed the fief on Pandolf , count of Capua ; but in 877 Duke Docibilis called in the assistance of the Arabs against the Capuans , and in the course of the 11th century we find the people of Gaeta exercising ...
... century Pope John VIII . bestowed the fief on Pandolf , count of Capua ; but in 877 Duke Docibilis called in the assistance of the Arabs against the Capuans , and in the course of the 11th century we find the people of Gaeta exercising ...
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... century , a communal college , a hospital , a theatre , and a military prison . Its industries include the manufacture of wine casks , leather , brandy , bricks , and various kinds of coarse cloth ; and it has a con- siderable trade in ...
... century , a communal college , a hospital , a theatre , and a military prison . Its industries include the manufacture of wine casks , leather , brandy , bricks , and various kinds of coarse cloth ; and it has a con- siderable trade in ...
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