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 13Francis Lieber Bazin and Ellsworth, 1859 |
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... England , Vossius was indemnified for his loss by a prebendal stall at Canterbury , with permission to continue his residence in the Netherlands . In 1633 , he was invited to Amsterdam , to occupy the chair of history , at the schola ...
... England , Vossius was indemnified for his loss by a prebendal stall at Canterbury , with permission to continue his residence in the Netherlands . In 1633 , he was invited to Amsterdam , to occupy the chair of history , at the schola ...
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... England or in Spain , the answer may be , that a greater quantity of corresponding articles goes to compensate the same labor and skill in England , but that a greater proportion of the whole mass of annual products goes to compensate ...
... England or in Spain , the answer may be , that a greater quantity of corresponding articles goes to compensate the same labor and skill in England , but that a greater proportion of the whole mass of annual products goes to compensate ...
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... England , would cost him from one to three months ' wages , and in England still more ; whereas the English or New England laborer can earn more cloth in the same time than the one at Buenos Ayres , though the money price of wages is ...
... England , would cost him from one to three months ' wages , and in England still more ; whereas the English or New England laborer can earn more cloth in the same time than the one at Buenos Ayres , though the money price of wages is ...
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... England , in the West Riding of Yorkshire , on the river Calder . The parish church is a Gothic structure : the spire is upwards of 237 feet in height . There is a handsome stone bridge over the Calder , built in the reign of Edward III ...
... England , in the West Riding of Yorkshire , on the river Calder . The parish church is a Gothic structure : the spire is upwards of 237 feet in height . There is a handsome stone bridge over the Calder , built in the reign of Edward III ...
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... England ; and the influence of their example is gradually exterminating the old Welsh peculiarities . Many remains of the ancient literature are yet extant , and societies have been formed for preserving such relicts . ( See Bard ...
... England ; and the influence of their example is gradually exterminating the old Welsh peculiarities . Many remains of the ancient literature are yet extant , and societies have been formed for preserving such relicts . ( See Bard ...
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