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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... language also still preserves , in some words , the remains of the Gothic , although the Visigoths , after the conquest of the peninsula of the Pyrenees , adopted the language of the Romans . There is a Geschichte der Westgothen , by ...
... language also still preserves , in some words , the remains of the Gothic , although the Visigoths , after the conquest of the peninsula of the Pyrenees , adopted the language of the Romans . There is a Geschichte der Westgothen , by ...
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... language . During his residence at Oxford , he was admitted doctor of laws , and acquired much favor with Henry VIII ... languages , besides those already alluded to , the principal of which is entitled Enodatio Problematum ( 1677 ) ...
... language . During his residence at Oxford , he was admitted doctor of laws , and acquired much favor with Henry VIII ... languages , besides those already alluded to , the principal of which is entitled Enodatio Problematum ( 1677 ) ...
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... language , by the various combinations of which such a variety of words is pro- duced , we will add a few remarks . Be- sides the lungs , the windpipe , & c . , the finely - arched roof of the mouth , and the pliability of the lips ...
... language , by the various combinations of which such a variety of words is pro- duced , we will add a few remarks . Be- sides the lungs , the windpipe , & c . , the finely - arched roof of the mouth , and the pliability of the lips ...
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... languages , returned to France , whence he had been absent more than two years . The fruits of his inquiries appeared in ... Language of the Miamis ; Chronologie d'Herodote conformé ą son Texte ( 1808 , 2 vols . , 8vo . ) ; Recherches ...
... languages , returned to France , whence he had been absent more than two years . The fruits of his inquiries appeared in ... Language of the Miamis ; Chronologie d'Herodote conformé ą son Texte ( 1808 , 2 vols . , 8vo . ) ; Recherches ...
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... language ; one who serves in the army , or undertakes a particular duty without being obliged so to do : thus officers not unfrequently take part in a campaign , as volunteers . When an enterprise of peculiar danger is to be undertaken ...
... language ; one who serves in the army , or undertakes a particular duty without being obliged so to do : thus officers not unfrequently take part in a campaign , as volunteers . When an enterprise of peculiar danger is to be undertaken ...
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