Encyclop¿dia 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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Page 13
... Supposed to be near Hebron . ABEL - Mofch , or Abelmufch , in botany , the trivial . name of a species of the HIBISCUS . ABEL - Sattim , or Sittim , a town in the plains of Moab , to the N. E. of the Dead Sea , not far from Jordan ...
... Supposed to be near Hebron . ABEL - Mofch , or Abelmufch , in botany , the trivial . name of a species of the HIBISCUS . ABEL - Sattim , or Sittim , a town in the plains of Moab , to the N. E. of the Dead Sea , not far from Jordan ...
Page 14
... supposed to have begun in the reign of Arcadius , and ended in that of Theodofius . Indeed it was not calculated for being of any long continuance . Thofe of this fect regulated marriage after the example of Abel ; who , they pretended ...
... supposed to have begun in the reign of Arcadius , and ended in that of Theodofius . Indeed it was not calculated for being of any long continuance . Thofe of this fect regulated marriage after the example of Abel ; who , they pretended ...
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... supposed to be wrote by this patriarch . All the feveral works which Abraham composed in the plains of Mamre , are faid to be contained in the library of the monaftery of the Holy Cross on Mount Ama- SKirchem's's ria , in Ethiopia ...
... supposed to be wrote by this patriarch . All the feveral works which Abraham composed in the plains of Mamre , are faid to be contained in the library of the monaftery of the Holy Cross on Mount Ama- SKirchem's's ria , in Ethiopia ...
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... supposed that it caufes that difeafe ; but o- thers obferve , that if this were fo , it would be found more univerfally in those puftules . It is more probable that these only make a proper nidus for it . See , however , the article ...
... supposed that it caufes that difeafe ; but o- thers obferve , that if this were fo , it would be found more univerfally in those puftules . It is more probable that these only make a proper nidus for it . See , however , the article ...
Page 54
... supposed to be form- ed from Acco , the name of a foolish old woman noted in antiquity for an affectation of this kind . Accifmus is fometimes confidered as a virtue ; fome- times as a vice , which Auguftus and Tiberius prac- tifed with ...
... supposed to be form- ed from Acco , the name of a foolish old woman noted in antiquity for an affectation of this kind . Accifmus is fometimes confidered as a virtue ; fome- times as a vice , which Auguftus and Tiberius prac- tifed with ...
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