The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 6. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1878 |
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... British earthworks bear witness to an early settlement on the spot , and a church was in existence as far back as the time of Henry II . , when it was bestowed by William de Clyfton on the abbot of the Austin canons in Bristol ; but ...
... British earthworks bear witness to an early settlement on the spot , and a church was in existence as far back as the time of Henry II . , when it was bestowed by William de Clyfton on the abbot of the Austin canons in Bristol ; but ...
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... British Isles is a very moist wind , being both an oceanic and equatorial current ; whereas the N.E. wind , on the other hand , is peculiarly dry and parching , because it is both a northerly and continental current . Owing to the ...
... British Isles is a very moist wind , being both an oceanic and equatorial current ; whereas the N.E. wind , on the other hand , is peculiarly dry and parching , because it is both a northerly and continental current . Owing to the ...
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... British India before he was forty years of age . He is now represented by the Powis family , his son having been made earl of Powis in the peerage of the United Kingdom . Clive was born on the 29th September 1725 at Styche , the family ...
... British India before he was forty years of age . He is now represented by the Powis family , his son having been made earl of Powis in the peerage of the United Kingdom . Clive was born on the 29th September 1725 at Styche , the family ...
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... British troops , by his courage and skill in several small engagements , when the peace of Aix - la - Chapelle forced him to return to his civil duties for a short time . An attack of the malady which so severely affected his spirits ...
... British troops , by his courage and skill in several small engagements , when the peace of Aix - la - Chapelle forced him to return to his civil duties for a short time . An attack of the malady which so severely affected his spirits ...
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... British soldiers , 800 sepoys , 7 field - pieces and 500 sailors to draw them , he had routed a force of 34,000 men with 40 pieces of heavy cannon , 50 elephants , and a camp that extended upwards of four miles in length . His own ...
... British soldiers , 800 sepoys , 7 field - pieces and 500 sailors to draw them , he had routed a force of 34,000 men with 40 pieces of heavy cannon , 50 elephants , and a camp that extended upwards of four miles in length . His own ...
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