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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... period are found in the Vatican library , and in the archives of various churches in Rome ; others were published . Thus the work entitled Missæ tres a Claudio Goudimel præstan- tissimo musico auctore , nunc primum in lucem editæ ...
... period are found in the Vatican library , and in the archives of various churches in Rome ; others were published . Thus the work entitled Missæ tres a Claudio Goudimel præstan- tissimo musico auctore , nunc primum in lucem editæ ...
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... period . In the 18th century the natural champions of monarchical power were in opposition . Their vast local influence , which might otherwise have gone to aggrandize the influence of the crown , was really employed to thwart it ...
... period . In the 18th century the natural champions of monarchical power were in opposition . Their vast local influence , which might otherwise have gone to aggrandize the influence of the crown , was really employed to thwart it ...
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... period from 1815 to 1850 is contrasted with the militant period since 1850. The latter has been marked by the usurpations of military officialism , by sanitary dic- tation , by coercive philanthropy , by compulsory education , by an ...
... period from 1815 to 1850 is contrasted with the militant period since 1850. The latter has been marked by the usurpations of military officialism , by sanitary dic- tation , by coercive philanthropy , by compulsory education , by an ...
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... period of thirty - eight years , very few have the qualities which commend a work of fiction to posterity ; but nearly all are pleasant to read , and some will no doubt survive as an interesting and lively picture of French manners ...
... period of thirty - eight years , very few have the qualities which commend a work of fiction to posterity ; but nearly all are pleasant to read , and some will no doubt survive as an interesting and lively picture of French manners ...
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... period ( for it is not to bo confounded with the ancient Illiberis ) ; and even under the Moors it held a place of very subordinate importance until the period of the conquests of St Ferdinand , when it became the exclusive seat of ...
... period ( for it is not to bo confounded with the ancient Illiberis ) ; and even under the Moors it held a place of very subordinate importance until the period of the conquests of St Ferdinand , when it became the exclusive seat of ...
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