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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Page xii
... beginning to the end been fuperintended by the fame man ; but they will be allowed to have been almost unavoidable , when it is known that , after the Work was far advanced , it was committed to the care of a new Editor , who , though ...
... beginning to the end been fuperintended by the fame man ; but they will be allowed to have been almost unavoidable , when it is known that , after the Work was far advanced , it was committed to the care of a new Editor , who , though ...
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... beginning of Auguft : it confifts of thirty days . The Jews faft on the firft of this month , in memory of Aaron's death ; and on the ninth , because on that day both the temple of Solomon , and that erected after the captivity , were ...
... beginning of Auguft : it confifts of thirty days . The Jews faft on the firft of this month , in memory of Aaron's death ; and on the ninth , because on that day both the temple of Solomon , and that erected after the captivity , were ...
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... beginning of king James's reign was appointed chaplain in ordinary to his Majefty ; who had fuch an opinion of him as a writer , that he ordered the doctor's book , De Antichrifto to be printed , with his own commentary upon part of the ...
... beginning of king James's reign was appointed chaplain in ordinary to his Majefty ; who had fuch an opinion of him as a writer , that he ordered the doctor's book , De Antichrifto to be printed , with his own commentary upon part of the ...
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... beginning of March 1726 , to be 20 " more foutherly than at the time of the firft obfervation . It now indeed feemed to have arrived at its utmoft limit fouthward ; because , in feveral trials made about this time , no fenfible ...
... beginning of March 1726 , to be 20 " more foutherly than at the time of the firft obfervation . It now indeed feemed to have arrived at its utmoft limit fouthward ; because , in feveral trials made about this time , no fenfible ...
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... beginning of April . ABIDING by WRITINGS , in Scots law : When a perfon founds upon a writing alleged to be false , he may be obliged to declare judicially , whether hẹ will ftand or abide by it as a true deed . ABIES , the FIR - TREE ...
... beginning of April . ABIDING by WRITINGS , in Scots law : When a perfon founds upon a writing alleged to be false , he may be obliged to declare judicially , whether hẹ will ftand or abide by it as a true deed . ABIES , the FIR - TREE ...
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