The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 3Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American Compiling Department, 1903 |
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... built , before a house was begun . In 1687 he printed an almanac . The writings of George Keith , which he printed , having caused a quarrel among the Quakers , he was arrested in 1692 and imprisoned for libel . On his trial , when the ...
... built , before a house was begun . In 1687 he printed an almanac . The writings of George Keith , which he printed , having caused a quarrel among the Quakers , he was arrested in 1692 and imprisoned for libel . On his trial , when the ...
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... built by the Emperor Trajan for this purpose ; and the piers of ancient Piræus and of Rhodes are of the same class of structures . Herod , it is stated by Josephus , in order to form a port between Dora and Joppa , ordered mighty stones ...
... built by the Emperor Trajan for this purpose ; and the piers of ancient Piræus and of Rhodes are of the same class of structures . Herod , it is stated by Josephus , in order to form a port between Dora and Joppa , ordered mighty stones ...
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... built of strong open woodwork , divided into several sections , and secured by chains attached to fixed bodies . The breakers pass between the beams of such a structure as if through a sieve , and in the passage nearly all their force ...
... built of strong open woodwork , divided into several sections , and secured by chains attached to fixed bodies . The breakers pass between the beams of such a structure as if through a sieve , and in the passage nearly all their force ...
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... built especially for the work was used to dredge ' Wanted , a Copyist ' ; a trench along the line of the breakwater in the American Revolution . ' BREAST - BREATHING AND HEALTH BREATHING AND HEALTH BREBEUF -. known as the old breakwater ...
... built especially for the work was used to dredge ' Wanted , a Copyist ' ; a trench along the line of the breakwater in the American Revolution . ' BREAST - BREATHING AND HEALTH BREATHING AND HEALTH BREBEUF -. known as the old breakwater ...
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... built in 1148-1680 , and restored in 1875 , the Protes- tant churches of St. Elizabeth and St. Mary Magdalene , the Rathhaus or city - hall , a Gothic structure of the 14th and 15th centuries , the municipal buildings , the government ...
... built in 1148-1680 , and restored in 1875 , the Protes- tant churches of St. Elizabeth and St. Mary Magdalene , the Rathhaus or city - hall , a Gothic structure of the 14th and 15th centuries , the municipal buildings , the government ...
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