The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 17. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1884 |
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... bearing less directly on the point being carefully eliminated . The subjects of these great mural sculptures are endless in their variety ; almost every possible incident in man's life here or beyond the grave is reproduced with the ...
... bearing less directly on the point being carefully eliminated . The subjects of these great mural sculptures are endless in their variety ; almost every possible incident in man's life here or beyond the grave is reproduced with the ...
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... bearing his name , a skeleton , and the words " Vive moriturus . " Soult sacked this church , and nothing is to be seen of it now but a heap of rubbish . Murillo has always been one of the most popular of painters -- not in Spain alone ...
... bearing his name , a skeleton , and the words " Vive moriturus . " Soult sacked this church , and nothing is to be seen of it now but a heap of rubbish . Murillo has always been one of the most popular of painters -- not in Spain alone ...
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... bearing at this thin end two long fine cilia by means of which they can move in water . The sperma- tozoids are formed in the male sexual organs , the an- theridia ( fig . 5 , C ) , which are bodies with long or short stalks , and of ...
... bearing at this thin end two long fine cilia by means of which they can move in water . The sperma- tozoids are formed in the male sexual organs , the an- theridia ( fig . 5 , C ) , which are bodies with long or short stalks , and of ...
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... bearing chloro- phyll . Instead of these lamellæ , we find in some other Mosses simple rows of cells , as in Pharomitrium subsessile . A peculiar structure of the leaf is also found in Leucobryum glaucum and Sphagnum . The first - named ...
... bearing chloro- phyll . Instead of these lamellæ , we find in some other Mosses simple rows of cells , as in Pharomitrium subsessile . A peculiar structure of the leaf is also found in Leucobryum glaucum and Sphagnum . The first - named ...
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... bearing axis with root w . A is magnified 550 , B about 90 diameters . Mosses propagate themselves very extensively , not only by means of spores , but in a vegetative way . Every one of the hair - shaped roots ( rhizoids ) which spring ...
... bearing axis with root w . A is magnified 550 , B about 90 diameters . Mosses propagate themselves very extensively , not only by means of spores , but in a vegetative way . Every one of the hair - shaped roots ( rhizoids ) which spring ...
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