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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... fame name , and to the 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 ...
... fame name , and to the 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 ...
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... fame fenfe . yam ABBA ( anc . geog . ) , a town of Afric Propria , near Carthage . ABBA , in the Syriac and Chaldee languages , lite- rally fignifies a father ; and , figuratively , a fuperior , reputed as a father in refpect of age ...
... fame fenfe . yam ABBA ( anc . geog . ) , a town of Afric Propria , near Carthage . ABBA , in the Syriac and Chaldee languages , lite- rally fignifies a father ; and , figuratively , a fuperior , reputed as a father in refpect of age ...
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... fame distance from the zenith as it had done in De- cember , when it was firft obferved : in September fol- lowing , it appeared 39 " more northerly than it was in March , juft the contrary way to what it ought to appear by the annual ...
... fame distance from the zenith as it had done in De- cember , when it was firft obferved : in September fol- lowing , it appeared 39 " more northerly than it was in March , juft the contrary way to what it ought to appear by the annual ...
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... fame time reproving Abraham for his difinge- nuity ; who thereupon , among other excufes , faid the was really his fifter , being born of the fame father , tho ' of a different mother . Abimelech afterwards gave con- fiderable prefents ...
... fame time reproving Abraham for his difinge- nuity ; who thereupon , among other excufes , faid the was really his fifter , being born of the fame father , tho ' of a different mother . Abimelech afterwards gave con- fiderable prefents ...
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... fame with what is called GRAFTING by approach . ABLAI , a country of Great Tartary , the inhabi- tants of which , called Buchars or Buchares , are fubject to Ruffia , but that only for protection . It lies eaft- ward of the river Irtis ...
... fame with what is called GRAFTING by approach . ABLAI , a country of Great Tartary , the inhabi- tants of which , called Buchars or Buchares , are fubject to Ruffia , but that only for protection . It lies eaft- ward of the river Irtis ...
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