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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... death of Barneveldt , who was put to death by the States - General , after the semblance of a trial , in 1619 . ABABDE , an African tribe occupying the country be- tween the Red Sea and the Nile , to the S. of Kosseir , nearly as far as ...
... death of Barneveldt , who was put to death by the States - General , after the semblance of a trial , in 1619 . ABABDE , an African tribe occupying the country be- tween the Red Sea and the Nile , to the S. of Kosseir , nearly as far as ...
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... death of the person last seised , a stranger enters upon lands before the entry of the heir or devisee , and keeps the latter out of possession . It differs from intrusion , which is a similar entry by a stranger on the death of a ...
... death of the person last seised , a stranger enters upon lands before the entry of the heir or devisee , and keeps the latter out of possession . It differs from intrusion , which is a similar entry by a stranger on the death of a ...
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... death , and the vanquished family was treated with a severity which gained for Abul- Abbas the surname of Al - Saffah , the Blood - shedder . From this time the house of Abbas was fully established in the government , but the Spanish ...
... death , and the vanquished family was treated with a severity which gained for Abul- Abbas the surname of Al - Saffah , the Blood - shedder . From this time the house of Abbas was fully established in the government , but the Spanish ...
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... death , which took place at Abbotsford in September 1832 , a committee of friends subscribed a further sum of about £ 8000 towards the same object . The property was wholly disencumbered in 1847 , by Mr Cadell , the publisher ...
... death , which took place at Abbotsford in September 1832 , a committee of friends subscribed a further sum of about £ 8000 towards the same object . The property was wholly disencumbered in 1847 , by Mr Cadell , the publisher ...
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... death . The Boëthius , and a fragment , De Generibus et Speciebus . The misery of those years was not , however , unrelieved ; for he last - named work , and also the psychological treatise De had been able , on the breaking - up of ...
... death . The Boëthius , and a fragment , De Generibus et Speciebus . The misery of those years was not , however , unrelieved ; for he last - named work , and also the psychological treatise De had been able , on the breaking - up of ...
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