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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... mean height , chocolate complexion , and remarkably regular features . Their reputation as cannibals is evi- dently well founded ; but they seem to partake of human flesh rather as a ceremonial observance than as an ordinary means of ...
... mean height , chocolate complexion , and remarkably regular features . Their reputation as cannibals is evi- dently well founded ; but they seem to partake of human flesh rather as a ceremonial observance than as an ordinary means of ...
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... means " luck " ; hence , in the Phoenician and Babylonian cultus , the god of luck , who is mentioned in Isa . Ixv ... mean- ing " a troop ( or army ) is come . " This last rendering has doubtless been influenced by Gen. xlix . 19 ...
... means " luck " ; hence , in the Phoenician and Babylonian cultus , the god of luck , who is mentioned in Isa . Ixv ... mean- ing " a troop ( or army ) is come . " This last rendering has doubtless been influenced by Gen. xlix . 19 ...
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... mean temperature is 66 ° or 67 ° Fahr .; in March it is 32 ° or 33 ° . Winter is long , and the snowfall , which ... means of light boats built at Zuravero , Halicz , Marianpol , & c . , which are usually broken up for firewood when ...
... mean temperature is 66 ° or 67 ° Fahr .; in March it is 32 ° or 33 ° . Winter is long , and the snowfall , which ... means of light boats built at Zuravero , Halicz , Marianpol , & c . , which are usually broken up for firewood when ...
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... means of internal communication in Galicia are decidedly tiles " ( Isa . ix . 1 ) . After the deportation by Tiglath Pileser defective . The only railways are those betwixt Lugo and ( 2 Kings xv . 29 ) , in which it is to be presumed ...
... means of internal communication in Galicia are decidedly tiles " ( Isa . ix . 1 ) . After the deportation by Tiglath Pileser defective . The only railways are those betwixt Lugo and ( 2 Kings xv . 29 ) , in which it is to be presumed ...
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... means of determin- ing longitudes , not only on land , but at sea . This method , on which he laid great stress , and for the facilitation of which he invented a binocular glass , and devised some skilful mechanical contrivances , was ...
... means of determin- ing longitudes , not only on land , but at sea . This method , on which he laid great stress , and for the facilitation of which he invented a binocular glass , and devised some skilful mechanical contrivances , was ...
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