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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... Translator and editor of Kayser's Comparative Geology . PAUL VINOGRADOFF , D.C.L. ( Oxford ) , LL.D. ( Cambridge and Harvard ) . Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford . Fellow of the British Academy . Honorary ...
... Translator and editor of Kayser's Comparative Geology . PAUL VINOGRADOFF , D.C.L. ( Oxford ) , LL.D. ( Cambridge and Harvard ) . Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford . Fellow of the British Academy . Honorary ...
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... translator of Aneurin's principal epic poem Gododin , for a son of Gildas , the historian . Gododin is an account of ... translated and edited by W. F. Skene in his Four Ancient Books of Wales ( 1866 ) , and Stephens ' version was ...
... translator of Aneurin's principal epic poem Gododin , for a son of Gildas , the historian . Gododin is an account of ... translated and edited by W. F. Skene in his Four Ancient Books of Wales ( 1866 ) , and Stephens ' version was ...
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... translation of Oppian , passages , what may perhaps be entitled to rank as the earliest 1478 , excepted ) , and so to the beginning of the literature proper . notice of private fishery rights - the epigram Ad Piscatorem , This first ...
... translation of Oppian , passages , what may perhaps be entitled to rank as the earliest 1478 , excepted ) , and so to the beginning of the literature proper . notice of private fishery rights - the epigram Ad Piscatorem , This first ...
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... translated from King Alfred . In the Contes moralisés , written by Nicole Bozon shortly before 1320 ( Soc . Anc . Textes , 1889 ) , a few fables bear a strong resemblance to those of Marie de France . The religious tales deal mostly ...
... translated from King Alfred . In the Contes moralisés , written by Nicole Bozon shortly before 1320 ( Soc . Anc . Textes , 1889 ) , a few fables bear a strong resemblance to those of Marie de France . The religious tales deal mostly ...
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... translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae , preceded by a history of the Trojan War , and a second part which carries us as far as the death of William Rufus . For this second part he has consulted historical ...
... translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae , preceded by a history of the Trojan War , and a second part which carries us as far as the death of William Rufus . For this second part he has consulted historical ...
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