A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volume 15Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... chiefly from the medals them- selves , and occasionally repeat them with the tablets , either actually or mentally , before his eyes : for vision , or the sense of seeing , is to be considered throughout as the very essence of our ...
... chiefly from the medals them- selves , and occasionally repeat them with the tablets , either actually or mentally , before his eyes : for vision , or the sense of seeing , is to be considered throughout as the very essence of our ...
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... chiefly serve to exclude the Wahabees , whose only mode of reducing a town is to storm it by cavalry . The garrison con- sists of about 200 musqueteers , and eighty horse . The staple of Mocha is coffee , of which this part of Arabia ...
... chiefly serve to exclude the Wahabees , whose only mode of reducing a town is to storm it by cavalry . The garrison con- sists of about 200 musqueteers , and eighty horse . The staple of Mocha is coffee , of which this part of Arabia ...
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... chiefly used in the plural , for those who live or have lived in recent times : to modernise is to adapt something ancient to modern form or usage : a modernism is something unduly modern or un- classical , being itself a modernism ' of ...
... chiefly used in the plural , for those who live or have lived in recent times : to modernise is to adapt something ancient to modern form or usage : a modernism is something unduly modern or un- classical , being itself a modernism ' of ...
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... chiefly domestic , and the inhabitants are largely connected with agriculture . They are said to amount to upwards of 20,000 . It is thirty miles W.S. W. of Syncum , and forty - five S. S. W. of Catania . MODICUM . Lat . modicum . A ...
... chiefly domestic , and the inhabitants are largely connected with agriculture . They are said to amount to upwards of 20,000 . It is thirty miles W.S. W. of Syncum , and forty - five S. S. W. of Catania . MODICUM . Lat . modicum . A ...
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... chiefly to Holland . 300,000 Holland and Eng- land . 100,000 England . 30,000 England and Hol- land . 200,000 Leghorn , Marseilles , Cadiz and Lisbon . 60,000 Holland and Lisbon . Cow and calf skins 120,000 London , Leghorn , and ...
... chiefly to Holland . 300,000 Holland and Eng- land . 100,000 England . 30,000 England and Hol- land . 200,000 Leghorn , Marseilles , Cadiz and Lisbon . 60,000 Holland and Lisbon . Cow and calf skins 120,000 London , Leghorn , and ...
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Page 110 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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