The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, 2. köideHugh Chisholm Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, 1910 This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style. |
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... church of the Carmine and also the paintings of Orcagna . In or about 1445 he was invited by the pope to Rome . The pope who reigned from 1431 to 1447 was Eugenius IV . , and he it was who in 1445 appointed another Dominican friar , a ...
... church of the Carmine and also the paintings of Orcagna . In or about 1445 he was invited by the pope to Rome . The pope who reigned from 1431 to 1447 was Eugenius IV . , and he it was who in 1445 appointed another Dominican friar , a ...
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... Church three times daily , about 6 A.M. , noon and 6 P.M. At these hours a bell known as the Angelus bell is rung . This is still rung in some English country churches , and has often been mistaken for and alleged to be a survival of ...
... Church three times daily , about 6 A.M. , noon and 6 P.M. At these hours a bell known as the Angelus bell is rung . This is still rung in some English country churches , and has often been mistaken for and alleged to be a survival of ...
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... Church consisting of the various churches in communion with the Church of England . The necessity for such a phrase as " Anglican Communion , " first used in the 19th century , marked at once the immense development of the Anglican Church ...
... Church consisting of the various churches in communion with the Church of England . The necessity for such a phrase as " Anglican Communion , " first used in the 19th century , marked at once the immense development of the Anglican Church ...
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... Church Missionary Society through the council , and George Augustus Selwyn was chosen as the first bishop . Since then the increase has gone on , as the result both of home effort and of the action of the colonial churches . Moreover ...
... Church Missionary Society through the council , and George Augustus Selwyn was chosen as the first bishop . Since then the increase has gone on , as the result both of home effort and of the action of the colonial churches . Moreover ...
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... Church . An even more imposing manifestation of this common life was given by the great pan - Anglican congress held in London between the 12th and 24th of June 1908 , which preceded the Lambeth conference opened on the 5th of July ...
... Church . An even more imposing manifestation of this common life was given by the great pan - Anglican congress held in London between the 12th and 24th of June 1908 , which preceded the Lambeth conference opened on the 5th of July ...
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Page 213 - Council from a decision of the High Court upon any question, howsoever arising, as to the limits inter se of the Constitutional powers of the Commonwealth and those of any State or States, or as to the limits inter ae of the Constitutional powers of any two or more States, unless the High Court shall certify that the question is one which ought to be determined by Her Majesty in Council.
Page 18 - The Church of England, in places where there is no church established by law, is in the same situation with any other religious body, in no better but in no worse position, and the members may adopt, as the members of any other communion may adopt, rules for enforcing discipline within their body which will be binding on those who expressly or by implication have assented to them.
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