The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... close to this comes the Greenland Falcon ( F. candicans ) , a native of North Greenland , and perhaps of other ... close to this bird comes the Pigeon - Hawk ( F. columbarius ) of North America - so close , indeed , that none but an ex ...
... close to this comes the Greenland Falcon ( F. candicans ) , a native of North Greenland , and perhaps of other ... close to this bird comes the Pigeon - Hawk ( F. columbarius ) of North America - so close , indeed , that none but an ex ...
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... close house , whereas they be alwaies fed and familiarly brought up by the man , untill they bee able to flie , when as the summer approaching verie suddenly they are continued and trained up in the same , the weather being alwaies warm ...
... close house , whereas they be alwaies fed and familiarly brought up by the man , untill they bee able to flie , when as the summer approaching verie suddenly they are continued and trained up in the same , the weather being alwaies warm ...
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... close resemblance to the Perpendicular style of the semi - ecclesiastical architecture of England . Falkland was constituted a royal burgh by James II . in 1458 , and its charter was renewed by James VI . in 1595. Population of the ...
... close resemblance to the Perpendicular style of the semi - ecclesiastical architecture of England . Falkland was constituted a royal burgh by James II . in 1458 , and its charter was renewed by James VI . in 1595. Population of the ...
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... close our account of the family . The main points of the theory are shortly stated in Systems of Con- sanguinity , & c . , pp . 487 , 493 , and in Ancient Society , p . 384 . From the latter work we quote the following description of ...
... close our account of the family . The main points of the theory are shortly stated in Systems of Con- sanguinity , & c . , pp . 487 , 493 , and in Ancient Society , p . 384 . From the latter work we quote the following description of ...
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... close of the reign of Richard II . In France the inventory of Charles V. at the end of the 14th century mentions a folding ivory fan . They were brought into general use in that country by Catherine de ' Medici , probably from Italy ...
... close of the reign of Richard II . In France the inventory of Charles V. at the end of the 14th century mentions a folding ivory fan . They were brought into general use in that country by Catherine de ' Medici , probably from Italy ...
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