Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 1. köide,1. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... said to abate or take down his curvets , when he puts both his hind legs to the ground at once , and obferves the fame exactness in all the times . ABATELEMENT , in commerce , a term used for a prohibition of trade to all French ...
... said to abate or take down his curvets , when he puts both his hind legs to the ground at once , and obferves the fame exactness in all the times . ABATELEMENT , in commerce , a term used for a prohibition of trade to all French ...
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... said , that honeft abbot could not flatter . " · His great zeal for the Proteftant religion made him a ftrenuous promoter of the match between the Elector 1Palatine and the Princefs Elizabeth ; which was accor- dingly concluded and ...
... said , that honeft abbot could not flatter . " · His great zeal for the Proteftant religion made him a ftrenuous promoter of the match between the Elector 1Palatine and the Princefs Elizabeth ; which was accor- dingly concluded and ...
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... said , of such wonderful comelinefs and beauty , that all women who saw him became enamoured : which may have given occafion to that prophetic light , which , ac- cording to the Arabians , fhone on the foreheads of him , his ancestors ...
... said , of such wonderful comelinefs and beauty , that all women who saw him became enamoured : which may have given occafion to that prophetic light , which , ac- cording to the Arabians , fhone on the foreheads of him , his ancestors ...
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... said to have been a colony of Chalcidians . The nux Avellana , called also Præneftina , or the hazel- nut , takes its name from this town , according to Ma- crobius . Now Avella . ABELLINUM , anciently a town of the Hirpini , a people ...
... said to have been a colony of Chalcidians . The nux Avellana , called also Præneftina , or the hazel- nut , takes its name from this town , according to Ma- crobius . Now Avella . ABELLINUM , anciently a town of the Hirpini , a people ...
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... SAID , ( Ebn Aljaptu , sultan of the Moguls , fucceeded his father anno 717 of the hegira . He was the last monarch of the race of Jenghizkhan ; and af- ter his death , which happened the fame year that Ta- merlane was born , the empire ...
... SAID , ( Ebn Aljaptu , sultan of the Moguls , fucceeded his father anno 717 of the hegira . He was the last monarch of the race of Jenghizkhan ; and af- ter his death , which happened the fame year that Ta- merlane was born , the empire ...
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