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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... complete account of it is , within the limits now available , impossible . The plumage of the adult FIG . 1. - Peregrine Falcon . is generally blackish - blue above , and white , with a more or less deep cream coloured tinge , beneath ...
... complete account of it is , within the limits now available , impossible . The plumage of the adult FIG . 1. - Peregrine Falcon . is generally blackish - blue above , and white , with a more or less deep cream coloured tinge , beneath ...
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... complete originality and copious illustrations , in M'Lenuan's Primitive Marriage . The classic example of the ceremony of capture is thus stated by C. C. Muller , History and Antiquities of the Doric Race , English translation , Oxford ...
... complete originality and copious illustrations , in M'Lenuan's Primitive Marriage . The classic example of the ceremony of capture is thus stated by C. C. Muller , History and Antiquities of the Doric Race , English translation , Oxford ...
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... complete , it may for our present purpose be regarded at least as representative . We proceed then to an analysis of it , in view of ascertaining what have been the causes of famines , -a point of the first importance when we come to a ...
... complete , it may for our present purpose be regarded at least as representative . We proceed then to an analysis of it , in view of ascertaining what have been the causes of famines , -a point of the first importance when we come to a ...
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... complete ; of old fans called Spanish a great number were in fact made in France . Louis XIV . issued edicts at various times to regulate the manufacture . Besides fans mounted with parchment , Dutch fans of ivory were imported into ...
... complete ; of old fans called Spanish a great number were in fact made in France . Louis XIV . issued edicts at various times to regulate the manufacture . Besides fans mounted with parchment , Dutch fans of ivory were imported into ...
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... complete he did not , to his great disappointment , find himself made secretary of state . In 1661 he repre- sented the university of Cambridge in parliament , and was presently sent out to Portugal as envoy extraordinary ; he was ...
... complete he did not , to his great disappointment , find himself made secretary of state . In 1661 he repre- sented the university of Cambridge in parliament , and was presently sent out to Portugal as envoy extraordinary ; he was ...
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