The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1879 |
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... Government house puts one in mind of a Shetland or Orkney manse , stone - built , slated , and grey , without the least shelter . The Government barrack , occupied by an officer and a company of marines , is a rather imposing structure ...
... Government house puts one in mind of a Shetland or Orkney manse , stone - built , slated , and grey , without the least shelter . The Government barrack , occupied by an officer and a company of marines , is a rather imposing structure ...
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... Government , but by the law of March 21 , 1855 , all restrictions were removed . Hosiery , tallow , dried and salt fish , train - oil , feathers , skins , and butter are the chief exports . Thorshavn , the chief town of the islands , is ...
... Government , but by the law of March 21 , 1855 , all restrictions were removed . Hosiery , tallow , dried and salt fish , train - oil , feathers , skins , and butter are the chief exports . Thorshavn , the chief town of the islands , is ...
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... Government , his Journeys in Turkestan in 1874 , In the Khanat of Khokand in 1875 , and Botanical Discoveries in 1876. See Petermann's Mittheilungen , 1872-74 . FEDERAL GOVERNMENT . A federal union of sovereign states for mutual aid ...
... Government , his Journeys in Turkestan in 1874 , In the Khanat of Khokand in 1875 , and Botanical Discoveries in 1876. See Petermann's Mittheilungen , 1872-74 . FEDERAL GOVERNMENT . A federal union of sovereign states for mutual aid ...
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... government . The Achæan league differed from that of the Ætolians in being one of cities . Grote speaks of it as never attain- ing to anything better than a feeble and puny life . But it gave good evidence of the benefits of federation ...
... government . The Achæan league differed from that of the Ætolians in being one of cities . Grote speaks of it as never attain- ing to anything better than a feeble and puny life . But it gave good evidence of the benefits of federation ...
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... government . The lieutenant - governors of the | provinces are nominated by him ; and all local legislation is carried on by the provincial parliaments . The remark- able confederation of the Dominion of Canada which has thus originated ...
... government . The lieutenant - governors of the | provinces are nominated by him ; and all local legislation is carried on by the provincial parliaments . The remark- able confederation of the Dominion of Canada which has thus originated ...
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