Encyclopaedia Americana. A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography. A New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 13Lea & Blanchard, 1849 |
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... letters the reader will find an account of the way in which the sounds represented by them respectively are ... letter k , and the syllable ak has been pronounced : and if the closure be made in the middle of the mouth , by the ...
... letters the reader will find an account of the way in which the sounds represented by them respectively are ... letter k , and the syllable ak has been pronounced : and if the closure be made in the middle of the mouth , by the ...
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... letters place him high in the class of epistolary writers , though they often degenerate into affec- tation , insipid pleasantries , and far - fetched allusions . VOLATILE OILS . ( See Essential Oils . ) VOLATILITY , in chemistry ; the ...
... letters place him high in the class of epistolary writers , though they often degenerate into affec- tation , insipid pleasantries , and far - fetched allusions . VOLATILE OILS . ( See Essential Oils . ) VOLATILITY , in chemistry ; the ...
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... letters . In return for an ivory box , made by herself , and for her instructions ( prepared for the direction of a law commission which she had insti- tuted ) , he sent her a bracelet netted by his own hands . In 1769 , a medal was ...
... letters . In return for an ivory box , made by herself , and for her instructions ( prepared for the direction of a law commission which she had insti- tuted ) , he sent her a bracelet netted by his own hands . In 1769 , a medal was ...
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... letter , it is undoubtedly a consonant , as much as h is , and cannot be said to be the same with the Spanish , German and Italian u , though , as stated in the article U , that letter is used to indi- cate the pronunciation of the ...
... letter , it is undoubtedly a consonant , as much as h is , and cannot be said to be the same with the Spanish , German and Italian u , though , as stated in the article U , that letter is used to indi- cate the pronunciation of the ...
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... letter peculiar to the alpha- bets of the Teutonic and Sclavonic lan- guages : those of Latin origin have it not , except in proper names of foreign per- sons . WAADTLAND , or DIE WAADT ; German names for the Pays de Vaud . ( See Pays ...
... letter peculiar to the alpha- bets of the Teutonic and Sclavonic lan- guages : those of Latin origin have it not , except in proper names of foreign per- sons . WAADTLAND , or DIE WAADT ; German names for the Pays de Vaud . ( See Pays ...
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