The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 11. köideDay Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith Werner, 1902 |
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... united ; the fertile are followed by the large , succulent fruit that gives the gourds their chief economic value . Many varieties of Cucurbita are under cultivation in tropical and temperate climates , especially in southern Asia ; but ...
... united ; the fertile are followed by the large , succulent fruit that gives the gourds their chief economic value . Many varieties of Cucurbita are under cultivation in tropical and temperate climates , especially in southern Asia ; but ...
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... united in his own person all the leading offices , and used them to give a seemingly legal title to what was essentially military despotism . There is no more interesting constitu- tional study than the chapters in which Tacitus traces ...
... united in his own person all the leading offices , and used them to give a seemingly legal title to what was essentially military despotism . There is no more interesting constitu- tional study than the chapters in which Tacitus traces ...
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... united body ; but Norman Conquest imposed on England the already highly even after the Revolution the union was still feeble and developed feudalism of France , and out of this feudalism the fluctuating , and each individual minister ...
... united body ; but Norman Conquest imposed on England the already highly even after the Revolution the union was still feeble and developed feudalism of France , and out of this feudalism the fluctuating , and each individual minister ...
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... United States congress , and in the sepa- whole power of the House of Commons is concentrated rate States of the Union , there are two houses of legis- in its hands . At the same time , it has no place whatever lature . This result has ...
... United States congress , and in the sepa- whole power of the House of Commons is concentrated rate States of the Union , there are two houses of legis- in its hands . At the same time , it has no place whatever lature . This result has ...
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... United States . - The United States offers a very different solution of the problem . The American president is at once king and prime minister ; and there is no titular superior to act as a conduit - pipe between him and his successor ...
... United States . - The United States offers a very different solution of the problem . The American president is at once king and prime minister ; and there is no titular superior to act as a conduit - pipe between him and his successor ...
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