Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; 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, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1833 |
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... sources , in order that the provinces might retain their ancient laws , but that the obligatory force of the law might pro- ceed from his own authority . This code was not abolished till about the middle of the seventh 1 *
... sources , in order that the provinces might retain their ancient laws , but that the obligatory force of the law might pro- ceed from his own authority . This code was not abolished till about the middle of the seventh 1 *
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... ancient collection of Spanish laws , the Fuero juzgo , or Forum Judicum , is drawn from the ancient laws of the Visigoths ; and many of them have been retained to the present day in the provincial law of Cas- tile and Catalonia . - The ...
... ancient collection of Spanish laws , the Fuero juzgo , or Forum Judicum , is drawn from the ancient laws of the Visigoths ; and many of them have been retained to the present day in the provincial law of Cas- tile and Catalonia . - The ...
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... ancient cone was of a very regular form , terminating , not , as at present , in two peaks , but with a flattish summit , where the remains of an ancient crater , nearly filled up , had left a slight depression , covered in its interior ...
... ancient cone was of a very regular form , terminating , not , as at present , in two peaks , but with a flattish summit , where the remains of an ancient crater , nearly filled up , had left a slight depression , covered in its interior ...
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... ancient Volaterra was one of the twelve principal cities of Etruria , and had 100,000 inhabitants . Some Etruscan monuments still remain : among these are its walls , with a gate , dedicated to Hercules ; and the fish - pond ...
... ancient Volaterra was one of the twelve principal cities of Etruria , and had 100,000 inhabitants . Some Etruscan monuments still remain : among these are its walls , with a gate , dedicated to Hercules ; and the fish - pond ...
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... ancient Sundgau , they divide Alsace from Lorraine , and , bending to- wards the German provinces on the Rhine , they terminate , towards the north - east , on the Rhine and the Moselle , under the name of Hundsrück ( q . v . ) , and ...
... ancient Sundgau , they divide Alsace from Lorraine , and , bending to- wards the German provinces on the Rhine , they terminate , towards the north - east , on the Rhine and the Moselle , under the name of Hundsrück ( q . v . ) , and ...
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