The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideLittle, Brown, 1875 |
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... character . All vowels may be defined as open positions The importance of this sound may be shown by histori- cal as well as by physiological evidence . We find by tracing the process of phonetic change in different lan- guages , that ...
... character . All vowels may be defined as open positions The importance of this sound may be shown by histori- cal as well as by physiological evidence . We find by tracing the process of phonetic change in different lan- guages , that ...
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... character of this house , probably , at the time of its erection , the most spacious house of a subject in the kingdom , not a castle , bespeaks the wide departure of the Cistercian order from the stern simplicity of the original ...
... character of this house , probably , at the time of its erection , the most spacious house of a subject in the kingdom , not a castle , bespeaks the wide departure of the Cistercian order from the stern simplicity of the original ...
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... character , uttering no word under the doom that had fallen upon her youth ; but now , at last , the occasion came for expressing all the pent - up emotions of her soul . Living on for some time in Brittany after his flight from St ...
... character , uttering no word under the doom that had fallen upon her youth ; but now , at last , the occasion came for expressing all the pent - up emotions of her soul . Living on for some time in Brittany after his flight from St ...
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... character , classical monograph Abélard ( 1845 ) , has given extracts , uttering no word under the doom that had fallen upon her remains in manuscript . youth ; but now , at last , the occasion came for expressing all the pent - up ...
... character , classical monograph Abélard ( 1845 ) , has given extracts , uttering no word under the doom that had fallen upon her remains in manuscript . youth ; but now , at last , the occasion came for expressing all the pent - up ...
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... character , though the accounts of his life have mythical elements intermingled with much that is tradi- tional or legendary . The difficulty of separating the historic from the merely traditional , hinders the presentation of a natural ...
... character , though the accounts of his life have mythical elements intermingled with much that is tradi- tional or legendary . The difficulty of separating the historic from the merely traditional , hinders the presentation of a natural ...
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