The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 25. köideThomas Spencer Baynes Werner Company, 1895 |
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... obtained the first Government reward for the improvement of chronometers . We shall not however stop to describe it , since it never came into general use , and it is said that nobody but Harrison himself could make it go at all . It ...
... obtained the first Government reward for the improvement of chronometers . We shall not however stop to describe it , since it never came into general use , and it is said that nobody but Harrison himself could make it go at all . It ...
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... obtained possession of the principal portion of the clove trade , which they continued to hold for nearly a century , when , in 1605 , they were expelled from the Moluccas by the Dutch . That power exerted great and inhuman efforts to ...
... obtained possession of the principal portion of the clove trade , which they continued to hold for nearly a century , when , in 1605 , they were expelled from the Moluccas by the Dutch . That power exerted great and inhuman efforts to ...
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... obtained an ensigncy in the 9th foot , through the influence of Colonel Campbell , his maternal uncle . The youthful officer had an early opportunity of engaging in active service . He fought under Sir Arthur Wellesley at Vimiera , took ...
... obtained an ensigncy in the 9th foot , through the influence of Colonel Campbell , his maternal uncle . The youthful officer had an early opportunity of engaging in active service . He fought under Sir Arthur Wellesley at Vimiera , took ...
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... obtained when wood was the only fuel in general use . Coal then meant the carbonaceous residue obtained in the destructive distillation of wood , or what is known as charcoal , and the name collier was applied indifferently to both coal ...
... obtained when wood was the only fuel in general use . Coal then meant the carbonaceous residue obtained in the destructive distillation of wood , or what is known as charcoal , and the name collier was applied indifferently to both coal ...
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... obtained concerning them . According to the first - named authority , there are no newer formations than the Trias in China other than alluvial deposits of enormous thickness , but Paleozoic strata , from the Silurian upwards , are ...
... obtained concerning them . According to the first - named authority , there are no newer formations than the Trias in China other than alluvial deposits of enormous thickness , but Paleozoic strata , from the Silurian upwards , are ...
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