The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 17. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's sons, 1884 |
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... give in their claims ; the court then prefers them according to their respective rights , and the holder of the fund or property in dispute on payment or delivery is absolved from any further claim in regard to it . MUMMY . The origin ...
... give in their claims ; the court then prefers them according to their respective rights , and the holder of the fund or property in dispute on payment or delivery is absolved from any further claim in regard to it . MUMMY . The origin ...
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... give a good idea of a common scheme of ecclesiastic decoration . An inscription on one of these paintings gives the date of their execution as 1323. The lower subject represents the death of the Virgin , above are figures of the ...
... give a good idea of a common scheme of ecclesiastic decoration . An inscription on one of these paintings gives the date of their execution as 1323. The lower subject represents the death of the Virgin , above are figures of the ...
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... gives less milk , or , if pregnant , may abort . Sometimes the feet become very much diseased , and the animal is so ... give but a faint idea of the appalling destruction wrought by rinderpest ; and lung - plague , though its ravages ...
... gives less milk , or , if pregnant , may abort . Sometimes the feet become very much diseased , and the animal is so ... give but a faint idea of the appalling destruction wrought by rinderpest ; and lung - plague , though its ravages ...
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... give II . MOSSES ( Musci or Musci Frondosi ) . The Mosses proper play a much larger part in the economy of nature than the Liverworts ; they occur in much greater quantity and are more widely distributed , the con- ditions of their ...
... give II . MOSSES ( Musci or Musci Frondosi ) . The Mosses proper play a much larger part in the economy of nature than the Liverworts ; they occur in much greater quantity and are more widely distributed , the con- ditions of their ...
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... give origin to the mother - cells of the spores - termed col- lectively " archesporium " -form a dome - shaped layer in the upper portion of the embryo ; thus they are not traversed by the sterile cellular tissue , the columella . Each ...
... give origin to the mother - cells of the spores - termed col- lectively " archesporium " -form a dome - shaped layer in the upper portion of the embryo ; thus they are not traversed by the sterile cellular tissue , the columella . Each ...
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