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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... length fo odious to the Frencli court , that they defired to have him recalled . He was afterwards deputed to Venice , and to several Ger- man and Italian princes , upon occafion of the troubles in Bohemia . He was the firft of three ...
... length fo odious to the Frencli court , that they defired to have him recalled . He was afterwards deputed to Venice , and to several Ger- man and Italian princes , upon occafion of the troubles in Bohemia . He was the firft of three ...
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... length the island was formerly called Macris ; afterwards A- bantias , or Abantis , from the Abantes , a people ori- ginally of Thrace , called by Homer ob Koμovies , from wearing their hair long behind , having in a battle ex ...
... length the island was formerly called Macris ; afterwards A- bantias , or Abantis , from the Abantes , a people ori- ginally of Thrace , called by Homer ob Koμovies , from wearing their hair long behind , having in a battle ex ...
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... length a title of dignity and honour : The Jewish doctors affected it ; and one of their most ancient books , containing the fayings or apophthegms of divers of them , is intitled Pirke Abboth , or Avoth ; i . e . Chapters of the ...
... length a title of dignity and honour : The Jewish doctors affected it ; and one of their most ancient books , containing the fayings or apophthegms of divers of them , is intitled Pirke Abboth , or Avoth ; i . e . Chapters of the ...
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... length are abbu- tantes ; which , in old furveys , were fometimes express- ed by capitare , to head , whence abbutals are now call- ed head - lands . ABCEDARY , or ABCEDARIAN , an epithet given to compofitions , the parts of which are ...
... length are abbu- tantes ; which , in old furveys , were fometimes express- ed by capitare , to head , whence abbutals are now call- ed head - lands . ABCEDARY , or ABCEDARIAN , an epithet given to compofitions , the parts of which are ...
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... length . But this will not be expected . It is remark- able , that the Greek churches , who celebrate the feafts of every other patriarch and prophet , have not done the fame honour to Abel . His name is not to be found in any catalogue ...
... length . But this will not be expected . It is remark- able , that the Greek churches , who celebrate the feafts of every other patriarch and prophet , have not done the fame honour to Abel . His name is not to be found in any catalogue ...
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