Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 13 |
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... the Visigoths were and officers of the court ( called viri illus- preserved longest in the laws , as the > Christians , on leaving the mountains , ject , under 6 VISIGOTHS .
... the Visigoths were and officers of the court ( called viri illus- preserved longest in the laws , as the > Christians , on leaving the mountains , ject , under 6 VISIGOTHS .
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He now gaye himself up such as the famous gigantic figure called to luxury and debauchery . He feasted the spectre of the Brocken , aërial troops four or five times a day , and was often of horsemen , spectre ships , & c .
He now gaye himself up such as the famous gigantic figure called to luxury and debauchery . He feasted the spectre of the Brocken , aërial troops four or five times a day , and was often of horsemen , spectre ships , & c .
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He invented a new 1814 ) , maintains that the voice is proinstrument , called orchestrion , in which duced by the pressure of the breath the tone was determined in quite a new through the narrow opening of the windway , by the increase ...
He invented a new 1814 ) , maintains that the voice is proinstrument , called orchestrion , in which duced by the pressure of the breath the tone was determined in quite a new through the narrow opening of the windway , by the increase ...
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Consonants are , generally speak- be perceived only in connexion with voing , only the beginning or end of vowels ; cal sounds , that they are called consoi . e . the mouth must in some way be nants . ” _ We refer the reader to Mr. Ar ...
Consonants are , generally speak- be perceived only in connexion with voing , only the beginning or end of vowels ; cal sounds , that they are called consoi . e . the mouth must in some way be nants . ” _ We refer the reader to Mr. Ar ...
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The ers , among whici , the Lech and the Iller origin of this signification of von was , take their rise here . There is much wood probably , that the early noblemen were and good pasturage , and the raising of .. called by their ...
The ers , among whici , the Lech and the Iller origin of this signification of von was , take their rise here . There is much wood probably , that the early noblemen were and good pasturage , and the raising of .. called by their ...
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| Title | Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 13 Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford |
| Editor | Francis Lieber |
| Contributors | Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake |
| Publisher | Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2010 |
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