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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... existence of abattoirs may be found in the system which prevailed under the Emperors in ancient Rome . A corporation or guild of butchers undoubtedly existed there , which delegated to its officers the duty of slaughtering the beasts ...
... existence of abattoirs may be found in the system which prevailed under the Emperors in ancient Rome . A corporation or guild of butchers undoubtedly existed there , which delegated to its officers the duty of slaughtering the beasts ...
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... existence . Owing its real origin , as a distinct foundation of reformed Benedictines , in the year 1098 , to a countryman of our own , Stephen Harding ( a native of Dorsetshire , educated in the monastery of Sherborne ) , and deriving ...
... existence . Owing its real origin , as a distinct foundation of reformed Benedictines , in the year 1098 , to a countryman of our own , Stephen Harding ( a native of Dorsetshire , educated in the monastery of Sherborne ) , and deriving ...
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... existence of unknown worlds of material for development , would relieve natural selection with its assist- ing causes from what many consider the too Herculean labour of evolving all species from one or a very few primary forms . The ...
... existence of unknown worlds of material for development , would relieve natural selection with its assist- ing causes from what many consider the too Herculean labour of evolving all species from one or a very few primary forms . The ...
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... existence ; most commonly , however , the opposition conveyed is to relative . A relative name being taken as one which , over and above the object which it denotes , implies in its signification the existence of another object , also ...
... existence ; most commonly , however , the opposition conveyed is to relative . A relative name being taken as one which , over and above the object which it denotes , implies in its signification the existence of another object , also ...
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... existence independent of particulars , even more real and permanent than theirs ; sometimes as an idea composed of all the circumstances in which the par- ticulars agree , and of no others ; again , as the idea of an individual ...
... existence independent of particulars , even more real and permanent than theirs ; sometimes as an idea composed of all the circumstances in which the par- ticulars agree , and of no others ; again , as the idea of an individual ...
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