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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... contains a number of special Copy- right articles , and any infringement of the same will be prosecuted . AKRON , OHIO , SEPT . 18T , 1904 . THE WERNER COMPANY . Encyclopædia Britannica . NEW WERNER TWENTIETH CENTURY EDITION . VOL.
... contains a number of special Copy- right articles , and any infringement of the same will be prosecuted . AKRON , OHIO , SEPT . 18T , 1904 . THE WERNER COMPANY . Encyclopædia Britannica . NEW WERNER TWENTIETH CENTURY EDITION . VOL.
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... contains a town - hall , a hospital , a theatre , several ancient churches , and a public library . The manufactures are chiefly cotton goods , hos- iery , leather , and paper . The population in 1872 was 7749 . FALASHAS ( i ...
... contains a town - hall , a hospital , a theatre , several ancient churches , and a public library . The manufactures are chiefly cotton goods , hos- iery , leather , and paper . The population in 1872 was 7749 . FALASHAS ( i ...
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... contains many fine thoughts ex- pressed in language truly poetical . From 1797 to 1803 he published a kind of satirical almanac entitled Taschenbuch für Freunde des Scherzes und der Satire . In this publica- tion he wrote a description ...
... contains many fine thoughts ex- pressed in language truly poetical . From 1797 to 1803 he published a kind of satirical almanac entitled Taschenbuch für Freunde des Scherzes und der Satire . In this publica- tion he wrote a description ...
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... contains a large percentage of silver . The dark bituminous layers of clay slate , which occur intercalated among ... containing Neuen Fragmente aus dem Orient , under the editorship of A. Thomas , three volumes of Gesam sion from being ...
... contains a large percentage of silver . The dark bituminous layers of clay slate , which occur intercalated among ... containing Neuen Fragmente aus dem Orient , under the editorship of A. Thomas , three volumes of Gesam sion from being ...
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... contains only the name of the mother of the dead , while the Latin text gives that of the father . " Certain ... contain much the same assortment of smaller communities . Looking at North America , we find the local tribe of Senecas to ...
... contains only the name of the mother of the dead , while the Latin text gives that of the father . " Certain ... contain much the same assortment of smaller communities . Looking at North America , we find the local tribe of Senecas to ...
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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...