Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... According to Jofephus Cilicia was firft peopled by Tarthith the fon of Javan , and his defcendants , whence the whole country was named Tarfus . The ancient inhabitants were in procefs of time driven out by a colony of Phoenicians , who ...
... According to Jofephus Cilicia was firft peopled by Tarthith the fon of Javan , and his defcendants , whence the whole country was named Tarfus . The ancient inhabitants were in procefs of time driven out by a colony of Phoenicians , who ...
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... according to Cambden . CIMA , or SIMA , in architecture , the fame with Cymatium , or OGEE . CIMABUE ( Giovani ) , a renowned painter , born at Florence in 1240 , and the first who revived the art of painting in Italy . He painted , ...
... according to Cambden . CIMA , or SIMA , in architecture , the fame with Cymatium , or OGEE . CIMABUE ( Giovani ) , a renowned painter , born at Florence in 1240 , and the first who revived the art of painting in Italy . He painted , ...
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... according to Plu- tarch , drew his images of hell and Pluto from the gloomy and difmal country where they dwelt . CIMMERIUM ( anc . geog . ) , a town at the mouth of the Palus Mæotis ; from which the Bofphorus Cim- merius is named ...
... according to Plu- tarch , drew his images of hell and Pluto from the gloomy and difmal country where they dwelt . CIMMERIUM ( anc . geog . ) , a town at the mouth of the Palus Mæotis ; from which the Bofphorus Cim- merius is named ...
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... according to the frequency of the fits ; and this mode of exhibition , although it may perhaps fometimes lead to the employment of more bark than is neceffary , we confider as upon the whole preferable , from being beft fuited to moft ...
... according to the frequency of the fits ; and this mode of exhibition , although it may perhaps fometimes lead to the employment of more bark than is neceffary , we confider as upon the whole preferable , from being beft fuited to moft ...
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... according to him , was the first sketch of this myfteri- ous art thefe fcytale were two rollers of wood , of equal length and thicknefs ; one of them kept by the ephori ; the other by the general of the army fent on any expedition ...
... according to him , was the first sketch of this myfteri- ous art thefe fcytale were two rollers of wood , of equal length and thicknefs ; one of them kept by the ephori ; the other by the general of the army fent on any expedition ...
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