The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, Volumen8Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... Normans , Saxons , and Flemings - who got large grants of land from David I. and his immediate successors . It was in those days that the family of De Moravia became the owners of the fairest part of the province . At the same period ...
... Normans , Saxons , and Flemings - who got large grants of land from David I. and his immediate successors . It was in those days that the family of De Moravia became the owners of the fairest part of the province . At the same period ...
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... Norman , but its Norman apse was destroyed , and the church extended eastward by six more arches , by Bishop Northwold , about the middle of the 13th century . The addition is Early English , and its carving is very elaborate and ...
... Norman , but its Norman apse was destroyed , and the church extended eastward by six more arches , by Bishop Northwold , about the middle of the 13th century . The addition is Early English , and its carving is very elaborate and ...
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... Norman and partly in the Early English style of architecture . The population of the two parishes of Ely , including an extensive rural district , in 1871 was 8166 . ELYSIUM , a name given by the Greeks to the abode of the righteous ...
... Norman and partly in the Early English style of architecture . The population of the two parishes of Ely , including an extensive rural district , in 1871 was 8166 . ELYSIUM , a name given by the Greeks to the abode of the righteous ...
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... Normans into England , or to maintain that it was a force of hunger only which impelled the Northern barbarians to attack the Roman Empire . In the invasion of Turkey in 1877 the Russian soldiers are said to have been surprised at the ...
... Normans into England , or to maintain that it was a force of hunger only which impelled the Northern barbarians to attack the Roman Empire . In the invasion of Turkey in 1877 the Russian soldiers are said to have been surprised at the ...
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... Norman Con- quest , vol . i . , Appendix , who however attaches too much importance to this English use ) . In comparatively modern times , the tle of emperor has been taken by the monarchs of Russia ( Vassili , about 1520 , his ...
... Norman Con- quest , vol . i . , Appendix , who however attaches too much importance to this English use ) . In comparatively modern times , the tle of emperor has been taken by the monarchs of Russia ( Vassili , about 1520 , his ...
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Página 135 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Página 144 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Página 143 - And in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Página 144 - I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.
Página 208 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Página 144 - ... next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black...
Página 212 - To each one according to his capacity, to each capacity according to its works.
Página 160 - Employer, or any part thereof, shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from his Master or Employer, although such chattel, money, or security, was not received into the possession of such Master or Employer, otherwise than by the actual possession of his Clerk, Servant, or other person so employed...
Página 208 - From hence it is evident that the Heat produced could not possibly have been furnished at the expense of the latent Heat of the metallic chips.
Página 136 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.