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, Volume 9Werner Company, 1907 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... existence of which was , however , then unknown ; and he immediately set to work to investigate both its natural history and geology . In 1834 he published a description of the geological character of the neighboring Sewalik hills , in ...
... existence of which was , however , then unknown ; and he immediately set to work to investigate both its natural history and geology . In 1834 he published a description of the geological character of the neighboring Sewalik hills , in ...
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... existence 600 years ago , but probably their origin is some centuries earlier . Since the 17th century their pro- duce has been gradually decreasing , and while in 1650 they produced nearly 3300 tons the total output in 1874 was only a ...
... existence 600 years ago , but probably their origin is some centuries earlier . Since the 17th century their pro- duce has been gradually decreasing , and while in 1650 they produced nearly 3300 tons the total output in 1874 was only a ...
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... existence nized ; but the marriage custom of Thibet , which assigns to in the custom of tracing descent through females . Again , a woman several brothers as joint husbands , cannot be thus where that custom is met with , though ...
... existence nized ; but the marriage custom of Thibet , which assigns to in the custom of tracing descent through females . Again , a woman several brothers as joint husbands , cannot be thus where that custom is met with , though ...
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... existence of the patriarchal , and still more of the monogamous , family impossible , and that the traditions of the races called Aryan , with many frag- ments of their customs , testify to a similar state of things in the past ...
... existence of the patriarchal , and still more of the monogamous , family impossible , and that the traditions of the races called Aryan , with many frag- ments of their customs , testify to a similar state of things in the past ...
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... existence of the rule are found in the fact that Roman genealogies do not , as it is said , show us examples of marriages between persons of the same gens . More to the point is Plutarch's statement ( Hepi airíwv ' Pwμaïkōv ) , " In ...
... existence of the rule are found in the fact that Roman genealogies do not , as it is said , show us examples of marriages between persons of the same gens . More to the point is Plutarch's statement ( Hepi airíwv ' Pwμaïkōv ) , " In ...
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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...