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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... side . The natives of the province of Keang - se are celebrated among the natives of the other Chinese provinces for the mode or form used by them in address , which is Laon peaon , " para- phrastically translated ( Morgan , Systems of ...
... side . The natives of the province of Keang - se are celebrated among the natives of the other Chinese provinces for the mode or form used by them in address , which is Laon peaon , " para- phrastically translated ( Morgan , Systems of ...
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... side have been derived ? 4. It has been shown that the actual practices of many barbarous races make the existence of the patriarchal , and still more of the monogamous family impossible , and that the traditions of the races called ...
... side have been derived ? 4. It has been shown that the actual practices of many barbarous races make the existence of the patriarchal , and still more of the monogamous family impossible , and that the traditions of the races called ...
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... side , and a Greek might marry his father's though not his mother's daughter . It has been argued that the prohibition to marry a uterine sister , though kinship in historic Greece went by the male line , indicates a past when the ...
... side , and a Greek might marry his father's though not his mother's daughter . It has been argued that the prohibition to marry a uterine sister , though kinship in historic Greece went by the male line , indicates a past when the ...
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... sides ( as respects the course of the polarized ray ) , nor when the same poles were on the same side either with the constant or intermitting . current . But when contrary magnetic poles were on the same side there was an effect ...
... sides ( as respects the course of the polarized ray ) , nor when the same poles were on the same side either with the constant or intermitting . current . But when contrary magnetic poles were on the same side there was an effect ...
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... side of Strömö , upon a narrow tongue of land , having creeks on each side , where ships may be safely moored . Its population is only between 500 and 600 ; but it is the seat of the chief Government and eccle- siastical officials , and ...
... side of Strömö , upon a narrow tongue of land , having creeks on each side , where ships may be safely moored . Its population is only between 500 and 600 ; but it is the seat of the chief Government and eccle- siastical officials , and ...
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