Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 17. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 517
... said , " It is your fifter , holy father . " " I have but one fi fter ( replied Sixtus with a frown ) , and he is a poor woman at Le Grotte ; if you have introduced her in this difguife , I declare I do not know her ; yet I think I ...
... said , " It is your fifter , holy father . " " I have but one fi fter ( replied Sixtus with a frown ) , and he is a poor woman at Le Grotte ; if you have introduced her in this difguife , I declare I do not know her ; yet I think I ...
Page 600
... said of any of the reft , because after mi afcending come always fa , fol , la , which are repeated invertedly defcending . To conceive the use of this , it is to be remembered , that the first thing in learning to fing , is to make one ...
... said of any of the reft , because after mi afcending come always fa , fol , la , which are repeated invertedly defcending . To conceive the use of this , it is to be remembered , that the first thing in learning to fing , is to make one ...
Page 606
... said to have taken its rife from a young fhepherd named Sophi , who attained to the crown of Perfia in 1370 ; others derive it from the fo- phoi or fages anciently called magi . Voffius gives a dif- ferent account of the word : fophi in ...
... said to have taken its rife from a young fhepherd named Sophi , who attained to the crown of Perfia in 1370 ; others derive it from the fo- phoi or fages anciently called magi . Voffius gives a dif- ferent account of the word : fophi in ...
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