The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideLittle, Brown, 1875 |
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... less modified form by most of the prin- cipal Continental towns , and the system of abattoirs has become almost universal in France . The condition of London in this important sanitary respect was for a long period little more endurable ...
... less modified form by most of the prin- cipal Continental towns , and the system of abattoirs has become almost universal in France . The condition of London in this important sanitary respect was for a long period little more endurable ...
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... less than 12 abbacies . | April and May 1869 ; The Lands of Scott. In Egypt , the first home of monasticism , we find abbots in chief or archimandrites exercising jurisdiction over a large number of communities , each of which had its ...
... less than 12 abbacies . | April and May 1869 ; The Lands of Scott. In Egypt , the first home of monasticism , we find abbots in chief or archimandrites exercising jurisdiction over a large number of communities , each of which had its ...
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... less redoubtable a foe than Daniel Defoe in his Advantages of the Act of Security , compared with those of the intended Union ( Edinburgh , 1707 ) , and A Vindication of the Same against Mr De Foe ( ibid . ) The logic and reason were ...
... less redoubtable a foe than Daniel Defoe in his Advantages of the Act of Security , compared with those of the intended Union ( Edinburgh , 1707 ) , and A Vindication of the Same against Mr De Foe ( ibid . ) The logic and reason were ...
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... less general notions , being then generally expressed positively as con- traries ( woman , boy , master , brute , and so forth , for man ) . If there is thus no name or notion that can strictly be called absolute , all knowledge may be ...
... less general notions , being then generally expressed positively as con- traries ( woman , boy , master , brute , and so forth , for man ) . If there is thus no name or notion that can strictly be called absolute , all knowledge may be ...
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... less emphatic or less variously so than that of certain other nations . If it means more , it is not merely an error , but an absurdity . From this conception of the subject , it is obvious that accent must be funda- mentally the same ...
... less emphatic or less variously so than that of certain other nations . If it means more , it is not merely an error , but an absurdity . From this conception of the subject , it is obvious that accent must be funda- mentally the same ...
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