The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideLittle, Brown, 1902 |
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... existence , studied manuscript rather than printed sources , and carried his investigations into the ballads of all other tongues , meanwhile giving a sedulous but conservative hearing to popular versions still surviving . At length his ...
... existence , studied manuscript rather than printed sources , and carried his investigations into the ballads of all other tongues , meanwhile giving a sedulous but conservative hearing to popular versions still surviving . At length his ...
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... existence . The new President showed admirable tact in dealing with the difficult problem he was called upon to face . Party feeling still ran high between the partisans to the two sides of the recent conflict . Admiral Montt took the ...
... existence . The new President showed admirable tact in dealing with the difficult problem he was called upon to face . Party feeling still ran high between the partisans to the two sides of the recent conflict . Admiral Montt took the ...
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... existence of the enormous mountain masses on which her western frontier abuts . From these main ranges , spurs or outliers run into China , having generally an east or west trend , and these have determined the courses of the great ...
... existence of the enormous mountain masses on which her western frontier abuts . From these main ranges , spurs or outliers run into China , having generally an east or west trend , and these have determined the courses of the great ...
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... existence of gold grains points , no doubt , to a matrix higher up . The whole of south - western China has the reputation of being highly metalliferous , and it is probable that valuable deposits may be found when permission to ...
... existence of gold grains points , no doubt , to a matrix higher up . The whole of south - western China has the reputation of being highly metalliferous , and it is probable that valuable deposits may be found when permission to ...
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... existence within its own borders of a " foyer " of cholera , by which is meant a focus or centre of infection . The precise interpretation of the term is left to each Government , and is treated in a rather elastic fashion by some , but ...
... existence within its own borders of a " foyer " of cholera , by which is meant a focus or centre of infection . The precise interpretation of the term is left to each Government , and is treated in a rather elastic fashion by some , but ...
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