Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... most cruel af- fiction , the death of his beloved daughter Tullia , who died in child - bed foon after her divorce from her third hufband Dolabella . She was about 32 years old at the time of her death ; and , by the few hints which are ...
... most cruel af- fiction , the death of his beloved daughter Tullia , who died in child - bed foon after her divorce from her third hufband Dolabella . She was about 32 years old at the time of her death ; and , by the few hints which are ...
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... most beautiful of the genus . The upper part of its body is of a fine green colour , rough , and rather blu- ih . The under fide , as alfo the legs and antennæ , are of a fhot colour , gold and red , of a copperifh caft . The eyes are ...
... most beautiful of the genus . The upper part of its body is of a fine green colour , rough , and rather blu- ih . The under fide , as alfo the legs and antennæ , are of a fhot colour , gold and red , of a copperifh caft . The eyes are ...
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... most fruitful countries of Afia ; but the western part equally barren , though famous , even to this day , for an excellent breed of horfes , of which 600 are yearly fent to Conftantinople for the fpecial ufe of the Grand Signior . The ...
... most fruitful countries of Afia ; but the western part equally barren , though famous , even to this day , for an excellent breed of horfes , of which 600 are yearly fent to Conftantinople for the fpecial ufe of the Grand Signior . The ...
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... most terrible havock of them . hardly to have fhaken an afpen leaf , yet I thought I The battle was therefore foon over , and the whole faw a little withered , pale , crumpled leaf , eaten as it day employed only in the most terrible ...
... most terrible havock of them . hardly to have fhaken an afpen leaf , yet I thought I The battle was therefore foon over , and the whole faw a little withered , pale , crumpled leaf , eaten as it day employed only in the most terrible ...
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... most of the young trees which are barked , recover , and continue healthy ; and that for thefe reafons the Spaniards now barked the younger trees for foreign markets , though they ftill imported into Spain fome of the bark of the old ...
... most of the young trees which are barked , recover , and continue healthy ; and that for thefe reafons the Spaniards now barked the younger trees for foreign markets , though they ftill imported into Spain fome of the bark of the old ...
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