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 438
... continued to increase till , in the reign of Richard II . they were of fo enormous a length that they were tied to the knees with chains fometimes of gold , fometimes of filver . The upper parts of thefe fhoes in Chaucer's time were cut ...
... continued to increase till , in the reign of Richard II . they were of fo enormous a length that they were tied to the knees with chains fometimes of gold , fometimes of filver . The upper parts of thefe fhoes in Chaucer's time were cut ...
Page 547
... continued ever after to reckon among the number of his friends . In October 1766 the duke of Buccleugh returned to England . Dr Smith spent the next ten years of his life with his mother at Kirkaldy , occupied habitually in intense ...
... continued ever after to reckon among the number of his friends . In October 1766 the duke of Buccleugh returned to England . Dr Smith spent the next ten years of his life with his mother at Kirkaldy , occupied habitually in intense ...
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... continued to be his amufe- ment till a very few years before his death , which hap- pened on the 23d of January 1785 , at the age of 68 . The habits of fludy , in a man of original genius , are objects of curiofity , and deferve to be ...
... continued to be his amufe- ment till a very few years before his death , which hap- pened on the 23d of January 1785 , at the age of 68 . The habits of fludy , in a man of original genius , are objects of curiofity , and deferve to be ...
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