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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... observed in lands and ages widely apart , cannot have grown out of the monogamous or patriarcbal family as we know it . The limitless area in which such practices have been usual may be gathered from a few examples . Thus Herodotus says ...
... observed in lands and ages widely apart , cannot have grown out of the monogamous or patriarcbal family as we know it . The limitless area in which such practices have been usual may be gathered from a few examples . Thus Herodotus says ...
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... observed that Aristotle ( Pol . , 1 , 2 , 5 , 6 ) gives very ancient synonyms of yervira , the terms poyadakтes ( nourished on the same milk ) , oporivo ( eating from the same vessel ) , oμokúnrot ( warmed by the same fire ) . These ...
... observed that Aristotle ( Pol . , 1 , 2 , 5 , 6 ) gives very ancient synonyms of yervira , the terms poyadakтes ( nourished on the same milk ) , oporivo ( eating from the same vessel ) , oμokúnrot ( warmed by the same fire ) . These ...
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... observed , for men to be " at once learning the liberal arts , and at the same time treated as slaves , " and neither in the case of Farquhar ror of Goldsmith was the system attended with favourable results . The former soon broke away ...
... observed , for men to be " at once learning the liberal arts , and at the same time treated as slaves , " and neither in the case of Farquhar ror of Goldsmith was the system attended with favourable results . The former soon broke away ...
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... observed ; but Hunt is surely in error in dating the decline of English comedy from the time of Farquhar . To say nothing of Goldsmith's two plays , Sheridan's Rivals and School for Scandal show no declension in brilliancy of dialogue ...
... observed ; but Hunt is surely in error in dating the decline of English comedy from the time of Farquhar . To say nothing of Goldsmith's two plays , Sheridan's Rivals and School for Scandal show no declension in brilliancy of dialogue ...
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... observed at all in connection with these . Mr Spencer himself ( p . 284 ) admits that " probably the practice arises in more ways than one , " and proceeds to supplement the theory already given by another - that adopted by Mr E. B. ...
... observed at all in connection with these . Mr Spencer himself ( p . 284 ) admits that " probably the practice arises in more ways than one , " and proceeds to supplement the theory already given by another - that adopted by Mr E. B. ...
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