The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, 9. köideWerner Company, 1907 |
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... France , and Spain fans had special conventional uses , and various actions in handling them grew into a code of signals , by which ladies were supposed to convey hints or signals to admirers or to rivals in society . A paper in the ...
... France , and Spain fans had special conventional uses , and various actions in handling them grew into a code of signals , by which ladies were supposed to convey hints or signals to admirers or to rivals in society . A paper in the ...
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... France , surnamed le Jeune , in allusion to his name Louis Florus . Some , again , have held that it is the extremity of the francisque , a kind of javelin anciently used in France . An objection fatal to the above and other theories ...
... France , surnamed le Jeune , in allusion to his name Louis Florus . Some , again , have held that it is the extremity of the francisque , a kind of javelin anciently used in France . An objection fatal to the above and other theories ...
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... France exhibits , in general , an advantageous succession of high and low ground . Less level than Poland , the north of Germany , or the greater part of European Russia , it is , on the whole , less mountainous than Spain or Italy ...
... France exhibits , in general , an advantageous succession of high and low ground . Less level than Poland , the north of Germany , or the greater part of European Russia , it is , on the whole , less mountainous than Spain or Italy ...
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... France , that region being exempt equally from the oppres- sive heat of the south and the frequent humidity of the north . The great current of wind which prevails in France blows from west to east , from the Atlantic , over the whole ...
... France , that region being exempt equally from the oppres- sive heat of the south and the frequent humidity of the north . The great current of wind which prevails in France blows from west to east , from the Atlantic , over the whole ...
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... FRANCE . Population Population in 1876 . LGOVERNMENT . The preceding table of the population arranged according to employments ( exclusive of children and servants ) is taken from the census of 1872 . The first of the following tables ...
... FRANCE . Population Population in 1876 . LGOVERNMENT . The preceding table of the population arranged according to employments ( exclusive of children and servants ) is taken from the census of 1872 . The first of the following tables ...
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Page 24 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.
Page 45 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 256 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 241 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 266 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 78 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 43 - Ascension- Day. Pentecost. St. Matthias. St. John Baptist. St. Peter. St. James. St. Bartholomew. St. Matthew. St. Simon and St. Jude. St. Andrew. St. Thomas.
Page 125 - Our immortal Fielding was of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburg, the lineal descendants of Eltrico, in the seventh century Duke of Alsace.
Page 125 - Hapsburg: the former, the knights and sheriffs of Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage; the latter, the Emperors of Germany and Kings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the old, and invaded the treasures of the new world. The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones...