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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... sometimes rude , and his language by no means decent . In his writings , he maintained extravagant para- doxes , while he was generally consid- ered as an infidel in religion . Hence Charles II said he was a strange divine , for he ...
... sometimes rude , and his language by no means decent . In his writings , he maintained extravagant para- doxes , while he was generally consid- ered as an infidel in religion . Hence Charles II said he was a strange divine , for he ...
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... sometimes founded more on the scarcity or abundance of characters , than on a difference of sounds , since , in some languages , there are many more vow- el sounds than signs . In some languages , the sounds of the vowels are uniform ...
... sometimes founded more on the scarcity or abundance of characters , than on a difference of sounds , since , in some languages , there are many more vow- el sounds than signs . In some languages , the sounds of the vowels are uniform ...
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... sometimes attack young or sickly animals . Their bodies exhale a disgusting odor . They usually live in companies ; and many of the larger spe- cies do not quit the lofty chains of moun- tains , where they build in inaccessible places ...
... sometimes attack young or sickly animals . Their bodies exhale a disgusting odor . They usually live in companies ; and many of the larger spe- cies do not quit the lofty chains of moun- tains , where they build in inaccessible places ...
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... sometimes a and in many cases it is an onomatopoeia , as vowel , sometimes a consonant , like y . It in wave . It has this character particular- seems to us that it must be classified with ly in German , which has numerous ono- h . The ...
... sometimes a and in many cases it is an onomatopoeia , as vowel , sometimes a consonant , like y . It in wave . It has this character particular- seems to us that it must be classified with ly in German , which has numerous ono- h . The ...
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... sometimes fall into indistinct generalities . Among his works are Lehrbuch der Geschichte ( 1816 ; 5th ed . , 1828 ) ; Philomathie ( 3 vols . , 1819-21 ) ; Manual of the History of Lit- erature ( 4 vols . , 1822-24 ) ; History of ...
... sometimes fall into indistinct generalities . Among his works are Lehrbuch der Geschichte ( 1816 ; 5th ed . , 1828 ) ; Philomathie ( 3 vols . , 1819-21 ) ; Manual of the History of Lit- erature ( 4 vols . , 1822-24 ) ; History of ...
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