The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Volumen8Werner Company, 1907 |
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... Romans , after the conquest of Carthage , made use of in war , in the amphitheatre , and in military pageants . No ... Roman empire , for centuries after it was almost unknown ; and it was only in 1865 that the Zoological Society of ...
... Romans , after the conquest of Carthage , made use of in war , in the amphitheatre , and in military pageants . No ... Roman empire , for centuries after it was almost unknown ; and it was only in 1865 that the Zoological Society of ...
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... Roman generals at their triumphs , and by their consuls when they celebrated the games- hence embroidery itself in Latin is styled " Phrygian , " and the Romans knew it under no other name . Babylon was no less renowned for its ...
... Roman generals at their triumphs , and by their consuls when they celebrated the games- hence embroidery itself in Latin is styled " Phrygian , " and the Romans knew it under no other name . Babylon was no less renowned for its ...
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... Roman Empire . In the invasion of Turkey in 1877 the Russian soldiers are said to have been surprised at the plenty of the Bulgarian towns and villages , and to have had curious reflections why they should have been led so far afield to ...
... Roman Empire . In the invasion of Turkey in 1877 the Russian soldiers are said to have been surprised at the plenty of the Bulgarian towns and villages , and to have had curious reflections why they should have been led so far afield to ...
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... Roman empire ( see EMPIRE ) , and since their time by a variety of other potentates . The term imperator seems to have originally belonged to every Roman magistrate who received from the comitia curiata the imperium ( i.e. , the power ...
... Roman empire ( see EMPIRE ) , and since their time by a variety of other potentates . The term imperator seems to have originally belonged to every Roman magistrate who received from the comitia curiata the imperium ( i.e. , the power ...
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... Roman empire in the West by Charles the Great in 800 A.D. , the title ( at first in the form imperator , or imperator Augustus , after- wards Romanorum imperator Augustus ) was taken by him and by his Frankish , Italian , and German ...
... Roman empire in the West by Charles the Great in 800 A.D. , the title ( at first in the form imperator , or imperator Augustus , after- wards Romanorum imperator Augustus ) was taken by him and by his Frankish , Italian , and German ...
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Página 130 - ... 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 144 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Página 123 - 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 185 - 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 143 - ... chattel, money( or valuable security which shall be delivered to or received or taken into possession by him for or in the name or on the account of his master...
Página 122 - And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Página 231 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Página 231 - ... It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal: this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Página 123 - 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.
Página 188 - To each one according to his capacity, to each capacity according to its works.