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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... carried them fuch lengths , that there arofe a neceffity of checking it . However , St Bafil , in his Rule , allows the abbefs to be present with the priest at the confeffion of her nuns . monks and nuns , which were found in fome ...
... carried them fuch lengths , that there arofe a neceffity of checking it . However , St Bafil , in his Rule , allows the abbefs to be present with the priest at the confeffion of her nuns . monks and nuns , which were found in fome ...
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... carried by excess of zeal , especially in the Indies , to run about the streets , and kill all they meet of a different religion ; of which travellers furnish many inftances . The English call this , running a muk , from the name of the ...
... carried by excess of zeal , especially in the Indies , to run about the streets , and kill all they meet of a different religion ; of which travellers furnish many inftances . The English call this , running a muk , from the name of the ...
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... carried all their poffeffions . They lived on the flesh of their herds and flocks , on milk ,. and cheese , chiefly on that of mare's milk . They were unacquainted with commerce . They only exchanged commodities with their neighbours ...
... carried all their poffeffions . They lived on the flesh of their herds and flocks , on milk ,. and cheese , chiefly on that of mare's milk . They were unacquainted with commerce . They only exchanged commodities with their neighbours ...
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... carried her off , and was fo enamoured of her , that he refolved to marry her . Abraham did not de- clare himself Sarah's husband ; but gave out fhe was his fifter . But the king being warned in a dream , that she was married to a ...
... carried her off , and was fo enamoured of her , that he refolved to marry her . Abraham did not de- clare himself Sarah's husband ; but gave out fhe was his fifter . But the king being warned in a dream , that she was married to a ...
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... carried out , or never used in any thing but veffels and trinkets for the fervice of the palace . In the lieu of ... carry their commodities by fea them- felves , are Arabia Felix , and the Indies , particu- larly Goa , Cambaye , Bengal ...
... carried out , or never used in any thing but veffels and trinkets for the fervice of the palace . In the lieu of ... carry their commodities by fea them- felves , are Arabia Felix , and the Indies , particu- larly Goa , Cambaye , Bengal ...
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