Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 1John Brown, 1816 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... antiquity : there is an agree- ment yet extant , between the abbot and the burgh- ers of Aberbrothick , in 1194 , concerning the ma- king of the harbour . Both parties were bound to contribute their proportions ; but the largest fell to ...
... antiquity : there is an agree- ment yet extant , between the abbot and the burgh- ers of Aberbrothick , in 1194 , concerning the ma- king of the harbour . Both parties were bound to contribute their proportions ; but the largest fell to ...
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... antiquity , a felect body of soldiers chosen from among thofe called Extra- ordinarii . * To ABLEGATE . v . a . [ ablego , Lat . ] To fend abroad upon some employment ; to send out of the way . Did . * ABLEGATION . n . / . [ from ...
... antiquity , a felect body of soldiers chosen from among thofe called Extra- ordinarii . * To ABLEGATE . v . a . [ ablego , Lat . ] To fend abroad upon some employment ; to send out of the way . Did . * ABLEGATION . n . / . [ from ...
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... antiquity . -Though now an appellative , it was originally a proper name given only to a certain people in Italy ; and both the reafon and origin of it are greatly difputed among the learned . Aborigines then denoted a nation in Italy ...
... antiquity . -Though now an appellative , it was originally a proper name given only to a certain people in Italy ; and both the reafon and origin of it are greatly difputed among the learned . Aborigines then denoted a nation in Italy ...
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... antiquity , it would appear to have been newly built . The folidity is fuch , that unlefs people make a point of deftroying it , the building muft laft a great number of ages . Ex- ^ cept the coloffal figures , whofe heads ferve as an ...
... antiquity , it would appear to have been newly built . The folidity is fuch , that unlefs people make a point of deftroying it , the building muft laft a great number of ages . Ex- ^ cept the coloffal figures , whofe heads ferve as an ...
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... antiquity , a fine villa , or pleasure houfe , fituated in a garden , in the fuburbs of Athens , about a mile from the city where Plato , and a number of his learned friends held their philofophical conferences . It was fo named from ...
... antiquity , a fine villa , or pleasure houfe , fituated in a garden , in the fuburbs of Athens , about a mile from the city where Plato , and a number of his learned friends held their philofophical conferences . It was fo named from ...
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