Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography. A New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volum 1Francis Lieber Bazin and Ellsworth, 1859 |
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... writers ; and that he will keep in mind the remark of Scaliger - Lexicographis et grammaticis secundus post Herculem labor . If the present work shall conduce to the diffusion of knowledge in this fortunate country , whose happiness is ...
... writers ; and that he will keep in mind the remark of Scaliger - Lexicographis et grammaticis secundus post Herculem labor . If the present work shall conduce to the diffusion of knowledge in this fortunate country , whose happiness is ...
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... writer . ) The desire of saving time and space , or of secrecy , led to the invention of abbreviations in writing . The abbre- viations of the Romans were of three sorts : 1. Words and syllables were abbre- viated , sigla ; 2. One ...
... writer . ) The desire of saving time and space , or of secrecy , led to the invention of abbreviations in writing . The abbre- viations of the Romans were of three sorts : 1. Words and syllables were abbre- viated , sigla ; 2. One ...
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... writers , if he had lived till his mind was fully matured . Young as he was , he deserves to be numbered among the writers , who , in the time of Lessing , labored with united zeal to raise and refine German literature . ABDERA , a city ...
... writers , if he had lived till his mind was fully matured . Young as he was , he deserves to be numbered among the writers , who , in the time of Lessing , labored with united zeal to raise and refine German literature . ABDERA , a city ...
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... writers assert that A. went to Mecca , and com- menced the erection of the temple . The Jews have at all times honored his tomb and his memory . His history , as given by the rabbins , is a mixture of truth and fiction . His ABRAHAM a ...
... writers assert that A. went to Mecca , and com- menced the erection of the temple . The Jews have at all times honored his tomb and his memory . His history , as given by the rabbins , is a mixture of truth and fiction . His ABRAHAM a ...
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... writers , is Meroe , or the Peninsula , which they sup- posed to be an island , formed by the suc- cessive union of the Nile with the Asta- boras and the Astapus , ( Blue River and Tacazze . ) The chief city of Meroe was placed by them ...
... writers , is Meroe , or the Peninsula , which they sup- posed to be an island , formed by the suc- cessive union of the Nile with the Asta- boras and the Astapus , ( Blue River and Tacazze . ) The chief city of Meroe was placed by them ...
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Encyclopaedia Americana. A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 1 Visualització completa - 1849 |
Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 1 Francis Lieber Visualització completa - 1836 |
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