The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideA. et C. Black, 1879 - 856 pages |
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... published about the beginning of the century , probably translated by Carswell , and published long after his death . A copy is now hardly to be found . But two important contributions were made towards the close of the century . The ...
... published about the beginning of the century , probably translated by Carswell , and published long after his death . A copy is now hardly to be found . But two important contributions were made towards the close of the century . The ...
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... published simultane- yously . The only part of the Gaelic that was published ( 607 before 1818 was what is called a " Specimen of the Original of Temora , " given with the other poems in English in 1762 . The opinions with regard to the ...
... published simultane- yously . The only part of the Gaelic that was published ( 607 before 1818 was what is called a " Specimen of the Original of Temora , " given with the other poems in English in 1762 . The opinions with regard to the ...
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... published a collection of Opuscula Mythologica , Ethica , et Physica , and editions of several Greek and Latin authors , but his fame rests chiefly on his collection of old works bearing on early English history , entitled Historic ...
... published a collection of Opuscula Mythologica , Ethica , et Physica , and editions of several Greek and Latin authors , but his fame rests chiefly on his collection of old works bearing on early English history , entitled Historic ...
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... published a work , avowedly from a MS . with the superscription Galenus , entitled Γαληνοῦ Εἰσαγωγὴ Διαλεκτική . Of this work , which con- tains no direct intimation of a fourth figure , and which in general exhibits an astonishing ...
... published a work , avowedly from a MS . with the superscription Galenus , entitled Γαληνοῦ Εἰσαγωγὴ Διαλεκτική . Of this work , which con- tains no direct intimation of a fourth figure , and which in general exhibits an astonishing ...
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... published at Naples , L'Abate Galiani , by Alberto Marghieri , 1878 , and the copious extracts from his correspondence with Tanucci , likewise published very recently in the new series of Viesseux's L'Archivio Storico , Florence , 1878 ...
... published at Naples , L'Abate Galiani , by Alberto Marghieri , 1878 , and the copious extracts from his correspondence with Tanucci , likewise published very recently in the new series of Viesseux's L'Archivio Storico , Florence , 1878 ...
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