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, Volum 1Francis Lieber Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1836 |
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Pàgina 1
... Greek and Gothic , atta is father ; in Latin , mamma signifies the breast . Many philologists are of opinion , that a ( as in father ) was the original vowel in most of those words which designate objects ex- pressive of great strength ...
... Greek and Gothic , atta is father ; in Latin , mamma signifies the breast . Many philologists are of opinion , that a ( as in father ) was the original vowel in most of those words which designate objects ex- pressive of great strength ...
Pàgina 2
... Greek architecture . Modern architects have given different signifi- cations to the word abacus . ( See Ar- chitecture . ) ABATIS , ( Fr. ) Trees cut down and laid with their branches turned towards the enemy , in such a way as to form ...
... Greek architecture . Modern architects have given different signifi- cations to the word abacus . ( See Ar- chitecture . ) ABATIS , ( Fr. ) Trees cut down and laid with their branches turned towards the enemy , in such a way as to form ...
Pàgina 13
... Greek words , owrŋgia àñò ou , ( salvation from the wood of the cross . ) Abrasax is neither an Ægyptian , nor Greek , nor Hebrew , but a Persian name , which denotes the Persian deity , Mithras . - Superstitious people , moreover , 14 ...
... Greek words , owrŋgia àñò ou , ( salvation from the wood of the cross . ) Abrasax is neither an Ægyptian , nor Greek , nor Hebrew , but a Persian name , which denotes the Persian deity , Mithras . - Superstitious people , moreover , 14 ...
Pàgina 14
... Greek and Roman churches have introduced his name into their le- gends . He is also mentioned in the Ko- ran , and some of the Mahometan writers assert that A. went to Mecca , and com- menced the erection of the temple . The Jews have ...
... Greek and Roman churches have introduced his name into their le- gends . He is also mentioned in the Ko- ran , and some of the Mahometan writers assert that A. went to Mecca , and com- menced the erection of the temple . The Jews have ...
Pàgina 15
... Greek characters , which betray , however , a foreign origin . Bellermann , in his Essay on the Gems of the Ancients , bearing the Image of Abraxas , Berlin , 1817 , declares only those having the above inscriptions to be genuine . The ...
... Greek characters , which betray , however , a foreign origin . Bellermann , in his Essay on the Gems of the Ancients , bearing the Image of Abraxas , Berlin , 1817 , declares only those having the above inscriptions to be genuine . The ...
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