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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... rise and rapid development of the compara- tively modern science of Anthropology , and the successful cultivation of the assistant sciences , such as Arch¿ology , Ethnography , and Philology , which directly contribute materials for its ...
... rise and rapid development of the compara- tively modern science of Anthropology , and the successful cultivation of the assistant sciences , such as Arch¿ology , Ethnography , and Philology , which directly contribute materials for its ...
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... rise and progress of the monastic system , its objects , benefits , evils , its decline and fall , we propose in this article to con- fine ourselves to the structural plan and arrangement of conventual establishments , and a description ...
... rise and progress of the monastic system , its objects , benefits , evils , its decline and fall , we propose in this article to con- fine ourselves to the structural plan and arrangement of conventual establishments , and a description ...
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... rise to ; and he had no better success in attempting to explain the phenomenon by the nutation of the earth's axis , radiation , errors of observa tion , & c . At last the true solution of the difficulty occurred to him , suggested , it ...
... rise to ; and he had no better success in attempting to explain the phenomenon by the nutation of the earth's axis , radiation , errors of observa tion , & c . At last the true solution of the difficulty occurred to him , suggested , it ...
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... rise to the tradition that this was the scene of Abel's death . ABILDGAARD , NIKOLAJ , called " the Father of Danish ... rise to offspring which passes through a totally different series of states from those exhibited by the parent , and ...
... rise to the tradition that this was the scene of Abel's death . ABILDGAARD , NIKOLAJ , called " the Father of Danish ... rise to offspring which passes through a totally different series of states from those exhibited by the parent , and ...
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... rise up out of valleys to Moriah , and offer thy son Isaac as a holocaust . " | 6000 . . ABRANTES , a town of Portugal , Estremadura province , on the Tagus , about 70 miles N.E. of Lisbon , delightfully situated on the brow of a hill ...
... rise up out of valleys to Moriah , and offer thy son Isaac as a holocaust . " | 6000 . . ABRANTES , a town of Portugal , Estremadura province , on the Tagus , about 70 miles N.E. of Lisbon , delightfully situated on the brow of a hill ...
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