The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2Encyclopædia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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Page 95
... societies and lay- ing the groundwork for the present Vatican Museum . A lively wit , he corresponded with many of the great men of his age , including Voltaire , who dedicated his tragedy Mahomet to him . • Benedict XV , original name ...
... societies and lay- ing the groundwork for the present Vatican Museum . A lively wit , he corresponded with many of the great men of his age , including Voltaire , who dedicated his tragedy Mahomet to him . • Benedict XV , original name ...
Page 427
... societies ; Montluçon alone has more than 300 such groups . Bourboune , Mourad ( b . Jan. 23 , 1938 , Jijel , Alg . ) , Algerian novelist who , like many young Algerian writers in the decades following their country's independence ...
... societies ; Montluçon alone has more than 300 such groups . Bourboune , Mourad ( b . Jan. 23 , 1938 , Jijel , Alg . ) , Algerian novelist who , like many young Algerian writers in the decades following their country's independence ...
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... societies , death is regarded as instantaneous ; it is not so in many nonliterate societies , where it is held to involve a slow change , a passage from the visible society of the living to the invisible one of the dead . During the ...
... societies , death is regarded as instantaneous ; it is not so in many nonliterate societies , where it is held to involve a slow change , a passage from the visible society of the living to the invisible one of the dead . During the ...
Contents
Beckford detail from an oil painting | 107 |
John Hoppner c 1800 in the Salford | 234 |
To make the best use of the Britannica | 260 |
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