The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 - 908 pages |
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... Italy , 6 miles S.W. of Padua . There are thermal springs in the neighbourhood , which have been much resorted to by ... Italian town from which he takes his name in 1250 , or , according to others , in 1246. After visiting the east in ...
... Italy , 6 miles S.W. of Padua . There are thermal springs in the neighbourhood , which have been much resorted to by ... Italian town from which he takes his name in 1250 , or , according to others , in 1246. After visiting the east in ...
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... Italy were without their Benedictine convent , Benedic- and they quickly rose in all the great centres of population in tine . England , France , and Spain . The number of these monas- teries founded between A.D. 520 and 700 is amazing ...
... Italy were without their Benedictine convent , Benedic- and they quickly rose in all the great centres of population in tine . England , France , and Spain . The number of these monas- teries founded between A.D. 520 and 700 is amazing ...
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... Italy , near the Ticino , 14 miles W.S.W. of Milan . It has silk manu- factures , and contains about 5000 inhabitants . | ABBOT , the head and chief governor of a community of monks , called also in the East Archimandrita , from mandra ...
... Italy , near the Ticino , 14 miles W.S.W. of Milan . It has silk manu- factures , and contains about 5000 inhabitants . | ABBOT , the head and chief governor of a community of monks , called also in the East Archimandrita , from mandra ...
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... Italy the Pope had usurped the nomina- tion of all abbots , and the king in France , with the ex- ception of Clugny , Prémontré , and other houses , chiefs of their order . The election was for life , unless the abbot was canonically ...
... Italy the Pope had usurped the nomina- tion of all abbots , and the king in France , with the ex- ception of Clugny , Prémontré , and other houses , chiefs of their order . The election was for life , unless the abbot was canonically ...
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... Italian style , costing about £ 24,000 . A very complete closed public market of two floors was built in 1842 , at a cost of £ 28,000 , by a company incor- porated by Act of Parliament . The upper floor or great hall is 315 feet long ...
... Italian style , costing about £ 24,000 . A very complete closed public market of two floors was built in 1842 , at a cost of £ 28,000 , by a company incor- porated by Act of Parliament . The upper floor or great hall is 315 feet long ...
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