Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 1. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... fuppofed to be thofe lying near Trippi , a citadel on an high and fteep mountain not far from Meffina . The inhabitants were called Abacænini . ABACATUAIA , in ichthyology , a barbarous name of the zeus vomer . See ZEUS . ABACH , a ...
... fuppofed to be thofe lying near Trippi , a citadel on an high and fteep mountain not far from Meffina . The inhabitants were called Abacænini . ABACATUAIA , in ichthyology , a barbarous name of the zeus vomer . See ZEUS . ABACH , a ...
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... fuppofed by the ancients . to be an island in the German ocean called by Ti- mæus Bafilia , and by Xenophon Lampfacenus Bal- tia ; now the peninfula of Scandinavia . Here , accord- ing to Pliny , fome imagined that amber dropped from ...
... fuppofed by the ancients . to be an island in the German ocean called by Ti- mæus Bafilia , and by Xenophon Lampfacenus Bal- tia ; now the peninfula of Scandinavia . Here , accord- ing to Pliny , fome imagined that amber dropped from ...
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... fuppofed to have been added to coats of arms , in or- der to denote fome dishonourable demeanour or stain , whereby the dignity of coat - armour was rendered of less etteem . See HERALDRY . ABATEMENT , in law . See To ABATE . ABATEMENT ...
... fuppofed to have been added to coats of arms , in or- der to denote fome dishonourable demeanour or stain , whereby the dignity of coat - armour was rendered of less etteem . See HERALDRY . ABATEMENT , in law . See To ABATE . ABATEMENT ...
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... fuppofed to contain 25,000 people . Its trade is confiderable , but might be greatly extended by an attention to the white- fisheries . The harbour was long a great detriment to its trade ,. and occafioned the lofs of many lives and ...
... fuppofed to contain 25,000 people . Its trade is confiderable , but might be greatly extended by an attention to the white- fisheries . The harbour was long a great detriment to its trade ,. and occafioned the lofs of many lives and ...
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... fuppofed to be wrote by this patriarch . All the feveral works which Abraham compofed in the plains of Mamre , are faid to be contained in the library of the monaftery of the Holy Crofs on Mount Ama- ria in Ethiopia § . The book on the ...
... fuppofed to be wrote by this patriarch . All the feveral works which Abraham compofed in the plains of Mamre , are faid to be contained in the library of the monaftery of the Holy Crofs on Mount Ama- ria in Ethiopia § . The book on the ...
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