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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... given in Britton's Architectural Antiquities . They show several departures from the Benedictine arrange- ment . In each the prior's house is remarkably perfect . All Cluniac houses in England were French colonies , go- verned by priors ...
... given in Britton's Architectural Antiquities . They show several departures from the Benedictine arrange- ment . In each the prior's house is remarkably perfect . All Cluniac houses in England were French colonies , go- verned by priors ...
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... given extracts , uttering no word under the doom that had fallen upon her remains in manuscript . youth ; but now , at last , the occasion came for expressing all the pent - up emotions of her soul . Living on for some time in Brittany ...
... given extracts , uttering no word under the doom that had fallen upon her remains in manuscript . youth ; but now , at last , the occasion came for expressing all the pent - up emotions of her soul . Living on for some time in Brittany ...
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... given of the earth's motion round the sun . It is indeed the most satisfactory proof of this that astronomy furnishes , the phenomenon being quite in- explicable on any other hypothesis . ABERYSTWITH , a municipal and parliamentary bo ...
... given of the earth's motion round the sun . It is indeed the most satisfactory proof of this that astronomy furnishes , the phenomenon being quite in- explicable on any other hypothesis . ABERYSTWITH , a municipal and parliamentary bo ...
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... given to Isaac . The patriarch died at the age of 175 years , ¡ and was buried by Isaac and Ishmael beside Sarai in Machpelah . The book of Genesis gives two lists of Arab tribes , descended partly from Abram and Keturah , partly from ...
... given to Isaac . The patriarch died at the age of 175 years , ¡ and was buried by Isaac and Ishmael beside Sarai in Machpelah . The book of Genesis gives two lists of Arab tribes , descended partly from Abram and Keturah , partly from ...
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... given by Tabari , constituting a confused mass of legends drawn from the Old Testament , the Koran , and the Rabbins . ( See Ewald's Geschichte . des Volkes Israel , vol . i . pp . 440-484 , third edition ; Bertheau's Zur Geschichte der ...
... given by Tabari , constituting a confused mass of legends drawn from the Old Testament , the Koran , and the Rabbins . ( See Ewald's Geschichte . des Volkes Israel , vol . i . pp . 440-484 , third edition ; Bertheau's Zur Geschichte der ...
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