The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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... extent or population , Prussia emerged from the war as an undoubted power of the first rank , and henceforth completely eclipsed Saxony , Bavaria , and Hanover , while it was plain that Austria would no longer stand without a rival for ...
... extent or population , Prussia emerged from the war as an undoubted power of the first rank , and henceforth completely eclipsed Saxony , Bavaria , and Hanover , while it was plain that Austria would no longer stand without a rival for ...
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... extent , but added little or nothing to her real power . The twelve years following the peace of Basel form one of the most sombre periods of the history of Prussia . Her prestige was lost by her persistent and ill - timed neutrality in ...
... extent , but added little or nothing to her real power . The twelve years following the peace of Basel form one of the most sombre periods of the history of Prussia . Her prestige was lost by her persistent and ill - timed neutrality in ...
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... extent , as its area was now only 108,000 square miles compared with 122,000 square miles at the beginning of 1806 , but the substitu- tion of German for Slavonic territory and the shifting of the centre of gravity towards the west more ...
... extent , as its area was now only 108,000 square miles compared with 122,000 square miles at the beginning of 1806 , but the substitu- tion of German for Slavonic territory and the shifting of the centre of gravity towards the west more ...
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... extent with those of Great Britain . Until recently the chief textile manufacture was linen , which was largely made by hand in Silesia , Westphalia , and Saxony . The domestic mode of manufacture has now to a great extent disappeared ...
... extent with those of Great Britain . Until recently the chief textile manufacture was linen , which was largely made by hand in Silesia , Westphalia , and Saxony . The domestic mode of manufacture has now to a great extent disappeared ...
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... extent ; one in the neigh- bourhood of Lake Dviniye is 27 miles long and 17 broad , and another on the Toropa extends for 17 miles , while many elongated marshes , 15 , 20 , and 30 miles long and from 2 to 3 broad , run parallel to one ...
... extent ; one in the neigh- bourhood of Lake Dviniye is 27 miles long and 17 broad , and another on the Toropa extends for 17 miles , while many elongated marshes , 15 , 20 , and 30 miles long and from 2 to 3 broad , run parallel to one ...
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