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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... principles to the mechanical arts and industries has rapidly advanced during the same period , and will require extended illustra- tion in many fresh directions . Mechanical invention has , indeed , so kept pace with the progress of ...
... principles to the mechanical arts and industries has rapidly advanced during the same period , and will require extended illustra- tion in many fresh directions . Mechanical invention has , indeed , so kept pace with the progress of ...
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... principles of arrangement , which indeed be- long to all Benedictine monasteries , enabling us to deter- mine with precision the disposition of the various build- ings , when little more than fragments of the walls exist . From some ...
... principles of arrangement , which indeed be- long to all Benedictine monasteries , enabling us to deter- mine with precision the disposition of the various build- ings , when little more than fragments of the walls exist . From some ...
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... principles of grammar , and in their committing to memory the whole of the Koran , a treatise or two on philology and jurisprudence , and the choicest Arabian poetry . After attaining to great pro- ficiency in that kind of learning ...
... principles of grammar , and in their committing to memory the whole of the Koran , a treatise or two on philology and jurisprudence , and the choicest Arabian poetry . After attaining to great pro- ficiency in that kind of learning ...
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... principles was to supersede a civil by a spiritual despotism ; " but , in point of fact , " says Hook , in his valuable Life , " he was a high - principled , high - spirited demagogue , who taught the people to struggle for their ...
... principles was to supersede a civil by a spiritual despotism ; " but , in point of fact , " says Hook , in his valuable Life , " he was a high - principled , high - spirited demagogue , who taught the people to struggle for their ...
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... principle of fervent and unhesitating faith , from which rational inquiry like his was sheer revolt , and now this ... principles and rules of conduct under pure philo- sophical discussion , even after the great ethical inquiries cf ...
... principle of fervent and unhesitating faith , from which rational inquiry like his was sheer revolt , and now this ... principles and rules of conduct under pure philo- sophical discussion , even after the great ethical inquiries cf ...
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