CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPEDIA: A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOPLE.1872 |
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... Italy , where a variety of types were introduced , including mythological heads and animals . In the reign of ... Italian towns subject to Rome are the horse's head , and galloping horse , both very beauti- ful . During the social war ...
... Italy , where a variety of types were introduced , including mythological heads and animals . In the reign of ... Italian towns subject to Rome are the horse's head , and galloping horse , both very beauti- ful . During the social war ...
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... Italy is of great interest . The money of the Lombard kings of Italy and Dukes of Benevento , is little inferior to that of the Greek emperors . There is a beautiful series of gold and silver pieces belonging to Venice , bearing the ...
... Italy is of great interest . The money of the Lombard kings of Italy and Dukes of Benevento , is little inferior to that of the Greek emperors . There is a beautiful series of gold and silver pieces belonging to Venice , bearing the ...
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... Italy and France , while in antiquity they always stood in pairs before the Pylons . Two small obelisks , and the apex of a third , have been found in Assyria , in shape of trun- cated prisms , the apices step - shaped . The most ...
... Italy and France , while in antiquity they always stood in pairs before the Pylons . Two small obelisks , and the apex of a third , have been found in Assyria , in shape of trun- cated prisms , the apices step - shaped . The most ...
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... Italy ; the so - called red chalk , with which sheep are marked ; Dutch Ochre ; Armenian Bole or Lemnian Earth ; Italian Rouge , and Bitry Ochre . They vary in colour from an Isabelline yellow , through almost every shade of brown , up ...
... Italy ; the so - called red chalk , with which sheep are marked ; Dutch Ochre ; Armenian Bole or Lemnian Earth ; Italian Rouge , and Bitry Ochre . They vary in colour from an Isabelline yellow , through almost every shade of brown , up ...
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... Italy from the year 476 to 493 , was the son of Edecon , a secretary of Attila , and one of his ambassadors to the court of Constantinople . This Edecon was also captain of the Scyrri , who formed the bodyguard of the king of the Huns ...
... Italy from the year 476 to 493 , was the son of Edecon , a secretary of Attila , and one of his ambassadors to the court of Constantinople . This Edecon was also captain of the Scyrri , who formed the bodyguard of the king of the Huns ...
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