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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... means essentially changed . Under the name of allies , the Goths formed a chief part of the Roman army ; but they became hostile whenever the promises made them were violated ; and scarcely was Theodosius dead , and the empire divided ...
... means essentially changed . Under the name of allies , the Goths formed a chief part of the Roman army ; but they became hostile whenever the promises made them were violated ; and scarcely was Theodosius dead , and the empire divided ...
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... means of giving their peculiar 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 ...
... means of giving their peculiar 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 ...
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... mean time , he was persecuted with lampoons of all kinds , so that he withdrew , with madame du Chatelet , to the court ... means so well adapted to his powers as the culture of the belles- lettres He soon returned to poetry , and wrote ...
... mean time , he was persecuted with lampoons of all kinds , so that he withdrew , with madame du Chatelet , to the court ... means so well adapted to his powers as the culture of the belles- lettres He soon returned to poetry , and wrote ...
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... means of ascertaining the volume of small bodies , the irregularity of which presents some difficulty in the way of de- termining it by ordinary means . Volume must not be confounded with mass . On the volume also depends the difference ...
... means of ascertaining the volume of small bodies , the irregularity of which presents some difficulty in the way of de- termining it by ordinary means . Volume must not be confounded with mass . On the volume also depends the difference ...
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... means always indicate nobility . There are a few cases , also , in Germany , in which von precedes the name of a commoner . The origin of this signification of von was , probably , that the early noblemen were called by their Christian ...
... means always indicate nobility . There are a few cases , also , in Germany , in which von precedes the name of a commoner . The origin of this signification of von was , probably , that the early noblemen were called by their Christian ...
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