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 13Francis Lieber Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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... character . When the clergy had once established their political influence , they could , without reluctance , allow the secular grandees , who came with the king to the councils , to take part in the delib- erations , the more ...
... character . When the clergy had once established their political influence , they could , without reluctance , allow the secular grandees , who came with the king to the councils , to take part in the delib- erations , the more ...
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... character to the different vowels ) , are of the greatest importance . Under the articles on the separate letters the reader will find an account of the way in which the sounds represented by them respectively are produced . " The modi ...
... character to the different vowels ) , are of the greatest importance . Under the articles on the separate letters the reader will find an account of the way in which the sounds represented by them respectively are produced . " The modi ...
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... character of the disease . The entire loss of voice originates from cramp , weakness or paralysis . If it is caused by paralysis , it is almost always a fatal symp- tom . If it is connected with an excitable constitution , it indicates ...
... character of the disease . The entire loss of voice originates from cramp , weakness or paralysis . If it is caused by paralysis , it is almost always a fatal symp- tom . If it is connected with an excitable constitution , it indicates ...
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... character than such as the nat- uralist might infer from the analogy of its structure to other volcanoes . These were recognised by Strabo . The ancient cone was of a very regular form , terminating , not , as at present , in two peaks ...
... character than such as the nat- uralist might infer from the analogy of its structure to other volcanoes . These were recognised by Strabo . The ancient cone was of a very regular form , terminating , not , as at present , in two peaks ...
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... character , such as tufas , peperinos and volcanic conglomerates . Besides the ejections which fall on the cone , and that much greater mass which finds its way gradually to the neighboring sea , there is a third portion , often of no ...
... character , such as tufas , peperinos and volcanic conglomerates . Besides the ejections which fall on the cone , and that much greater mass which finds its way gradually to the neighboring sea , there is a third portion , often of no ...
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