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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... structure by the dialect spoken and written by the victors . The Gaelic language , as now in use in Scotland , resembles closely in its structure both the Irish and the Manx . They form one family , and yet it has its own distinctive ...
... structure by the dialect spoken and written by the victors . The Gaelic language , as now in use in Scotland , resembles closely in its structure both the Irish and the Manx . They form one family , and yet it has its own distinctive ...
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... structure , still it must be the quality of the irritant of the tissues , rather than the specific peculiarities or the part of the plant affected , that principally determines the nature of the gall . Thus the characteristics of the ...
... structure , still it must be the quality of the irritant of the tissues , rather than the specific peculiarities or the part of the plant affected , that principally determines the nature of the gall . Thus the characteristics of the ...
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... structure is rendered air tight at the line of junction . Holders of great capacity are now erected in connexion with large works . The Imperial Company in London possesses two , at Bromley and Hackney , telescopic in form , the outer ...
... structure is rendered air tight at the line of junction . Holders of great capacity are now erected in connexion with large works . The Imperial Company in London possesses two , at Bromley and Hackney , telescopic in form , the outer ...
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... structure remaining at Gaur . It stands in the city to the north of the citadel , within a spacious court enclosed by a stone wall . The material is described as a dark grey stone , approaching to black , with sculpture in beautiful ...
... structure remaining at Gaur . It stands in the city to the north of the citadel , within a spacious court enclosed by a stone wall . The material is described as a dark grey stone , approaching to black , with sculpture in beautiful ...
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... structure of the toes in those lizards forms on the Continent . Before leaving Scotland he had received their most characteristic anatomical feature . These organs the honorary degree of LL D. from the university of are flattened out ...
... structure of the toes in those lizards forms on the Continent . Before leaving Scotland he had received their most characteristic anatomical feature . These organs the honorary degree of LL D. from the university of are flattened out ...
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