The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideLittle, Brown, 1902 |
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... effect doubled or trebled , and , what is worse , no return is made or account required of the extra sums thus levied . Each magistrate or collector is in effect a farmer . The sum standing opposite the name of his district is the sum ...
... effect doubled or trebled , and , what is worse , no return is made or account required of the extra sums thus levied . Each magistrate or collector is in effect a farmer . The sum standing opposite the name of his district is the sum ...
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... effect of the flight of the Chinese court in other parts of the empire . The anti - foreign movement had not spread much beyond the northern provinces , in which it had had the open support of the throne and of the highest provincial ...
... effect of the flight of the Chinese court in other parts of the empire . The anti - foreign movement had not spread much beyond the northern provinces , in which it had had the open support of the throne and of the highest provincial ...
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... effect . The result of the action was to confer upon the Japanese the full command of the sea , and to enable them to prosecute the land campaign without hindrance . The surviving Chinese ships , with the exception of one which went ...
... effect . The result of the action was to confer upon the Japanese the full command of the sea , and to enable them to prosecute the land campaign without hindrance . The surviving Chinese ships , with the exception of one which went ...
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... effect of motion is produced . This method has been so simplified that little books of cinetoscopic views are sold , from which the moving effect is obtained by simply letting the leaves escape rapidly from the thumb as the book is bent ...
... effect of motion is produced . This method has been so simplified that little books of cinetoscopic views are sold , from which the moving effect is obtained by simply letting the leaves escape rapidly from the thumb as the book is bent ...
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... effect . In 1780 Burke succeeded in bringing During the reign of George III . the civil list played an important part in the history of the struggle on the part of the king to establish the royal ascendancy . From the revenue ...
... effect . In 1780 Burke succeeded in bringing During the reign of George III . the civil list played an important part in the history of the struggle on the part of the king to establish the royal ascendancy . From the revenue ...
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