The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideA. et C. Black, 1879 - 856 pages |
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... give undivided attention to his learned researches . He died on his estate of Lemnitz , in Saxe - Weimar , on the 3d ... give a popular exposition of the Hegelian philosophy , which he himself regarded as fitted to give " absolute ...
... give undivided attention to his learned researches . He died on his estate of Lemnitz , in Saxe - Weimar , on the 3d ... give a popular exposition of the Hegelian philosophy , which he himself regarded as fitted to give " absolute ...
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... give an account of the common belief in the Highlands regarding fairies , but there is a great deal of popular literature taken up with descriptions of it , and with stories regarding these mis- chievous and meddling beings . They were ...
... give an account of the common belief in the Highlands regarding fairies , but there is a great deal of popular literature taken up with descriptions of it , and with stories regarding these mis- chievous and meddling beings . They were ...
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... gives expression to an important sentiment without backing it with a proverb , and these give force and pungency to what he says . A collection of these proverbs was made , in the known except in the topography . There is not a 10 GAELIC.
... gives expression to an important sentiment without backing it with a proverb , and these give force and pungency to what he says . A collection of these proverbs was made , in the known except in the topography . There is not a 10 GAELIC.
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... gives a deep blue colour , and with ferrous salts , after exposure to the air , an insoluble , blue - black , ferroso - ferric gallate . Bases of the alkali metals give withi solutions , in which they absorb oxygen and turn brown . it ...
... gives a deep blue colour , and with ferrous salts , after exposure to the air , an insoluble , blue - black , ferroso - ferric gallate . Bases of the alkali metals give withi solutions , in which they absorb oxygen and turn brown . it ...
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... gives birth to young Aphides ( emigrants ) , and that these , having acquired wings , By to the roots of certain grasses ( Bromus sterilis and Hordeum vulgare ) , and by budding underground give rise to several generations of b α FIG ...
... gives birth to young Aphides ( emigrants ) , and that these , having acquired wings , By to the roots of certain grasses ( Bromus sterilis and Hordeum vulgare ) , and by budding underground give rise to several generations of b α FIG ...
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