The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 9. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... appears like a grove of silk - cotton trees , and only at intervals are the brown roofs seen peering through the foliage . Major Laing about 1825 estimated the number of buts at about 4000. They are arranged in clusters round squares or ...
... appears like a grove of silk - cotton trees , and only at intervals are the brown roofs seen peering through the foliage . Major Laing about 1825 estimated the number of buts at about 4000. They are arranged in clusters round squares or ...
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... appears to have been justi- fiably reckoned a distinct genus , and its consideration may for the present be deferred . 66 The typical Falcon is by common consent allowed to be that almost cosmopolitan species to which unfortunately the ...
... appears to have been justi- fiably reckoned a distinct genus , and its consideration may for the present be deferred . 66 The typical Falcon is by common consent allowed to be that almost cosmopolitan species to which unfortunately the ...
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... appears as a city of Etrurian a very trivial incident occurred which resulted in his arrest sympathies , and it probably belonged to the Etrurian and execution . It would appear that , though an able League . It supported the people of ...
... appears as a city of Etrurian a very trivial incident occurred which resulted in his arrest sympathies , and it probably belonged to the Etrurian and execution . It would appear that , though an able League . It supported the people of ...
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... appears , twice offered a bishopric by Pitt , but declined the preferment . From all that is known of him it may be inferred that Farmer's habits of life were scarcely com- patible with episcopal reserve and dignity . He has been ...
... appears , twice offered a bishopric by Pitt , but declined the preferment . From all that is known of him it may be inferred that Farmer's habits of life were scarcely com- patible with episcopal reserve and dignity . He has been ...
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... appear . He became a gentleman of the Chapel Royal in the reign of Edward VI . , but resigned his post in 1564 on being ... appears that Farrant died , not in 1585 , as Hawkins states , but on November 30 , 1580 or 1581 . FARS , or ...
... appear . He became a gentleman of the Chapel Royal in the reign of Edward VI . , but resigned his post in 1564 on being ... appears that Farrant died , not in 1585 , as Hawkins states , but on November 30 , 1580 or 1581 . FARS , or ...
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