Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... pieces which are ftill extant in his works . Upon the death of Cæfar , Octavius his nephew and heir coming into Italy , was prefented to Cicero by Hirtius and Panfa , with the ftrongest profeffions on the part of the youg man that he ...
... pieces which are ftill extant in his works . Upon the death of Cæfar , Octavius his nephew and heir coming into Italy , was prefented to Cicero by Hirtius and Panfa , with the ftrongest profeffions on the part of the youg man that he ...
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... pieces Orpheus for his obfcene indulgencies . CICUTA , properly fignifies an hollow intercepted between two knots , of the ftalks or reeds of which the ancient fhepherds used to make their pipes . It is now , however , generally used to ...
... pieces Orpheus for his obfcene indulgencies . CICUTA , properly fignifies an hollow intercepted between two knots , of the ftalks or reeds of which the ancient fhepherds used to make their pipes . It is now , however , generally used to ...
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... pieces as of equal goodnefs , During the time of the late war , in the year 1779 , the Huffar frigate took a Spanish fhip , loaded principally with Peruvian bark , which was much larger , thicke , and of a deeper reddish colour , than ...
... pieces as of equal goodnefs , During the time of the late war , in the year 1779 , the Huffar frigate took a Spanish fhip , loaded principally with Peruvian bark , which was much larger , thicke , and of a deeper reddish colour , than ...
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... pieces of different fizes , either flat or quilled , and the powder is rather of a lighter colour than that of cinnamon . The red is ge- nerally in much larger , thicker , flattifh pieces , but fometimes alfo in the form of quills , and ...
... pieces of different fizes , either flat or quilled , and the powder is rather of a lighter colour than that of cinnamon . The red is ge- nerally in much larger , thicker , flattifh pieces , but fometimes alfo in the form of quills , and ...
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... pieces . - Alfo a grandfon of Pompey's . He confpired againft Auguftus , who pardoned him , and made him one of his moft intimate friends . He was conful A. U. C. 758 , and made Auguftus his heir . CINNABAR , in natural hiftory , is ...
... pieces . - Alfo a grandfon of Pompey's . He confpired againft Auguftus , who pardoned him , and made him one of his moft intimate friends . He was conful A. U. C. 758 , and made Auguftus his heir . CINNABAR , in natural hiftory , is ...
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