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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... mentioned in hiftory under the title of abbots . Philip I. Lewis VI . and afterwards the dukes of Orleans , are called abbots of the monastery of St Aignan . The dukes of Aquitain were called abbots of the monaftery of St Hilary at ...
... mentioned in hiftory under the title of abbots . Philip I. Lewis VI . and afterwards the dukes of Orleans , are called abbots of the monastery of St Aignan . The dukes of Aquitain were called abbots of the monaftery of St Hilary at ...
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... mentioned to Alexander ; who immediately ordered fome of his foldiers to fetch him . They found the good man at work , happy in his poverty , and entirely a ftranger to the noise of arms , with which all Åfia was at that time difturbed ...
... mentioned to Alexander ; who immediately ordered fome of his foldiers to fetch him . They found the good man at work , happy in his poverty , and entirely a ftranger to the noise of arms , with which all Åfia was at that time difturbed ...
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... mentioned by St Auftin , which arofe in the diocefe of Hippo in Africa , and i fuppofed to have begun in the reign of Arcadius and ended in that of Theodofius . Indeed it was not calculated for being of any long continuance Thofe of ...
... mentioned by St Auftin , which arofe in the diocefe of Hippo in Africa , and i fuppofed to have begun in the reign of Arcadius and ended in that of Theodofius . Indeed it was not calculated for being of any long continuance Thofe of ...
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... mentioned by Mr Adamfon , in Sir J. Sin- clair's Statistical Account of Scotland . ABERNYTE , a finall village in the above - men- tioned parish , to which it gives name , fituated on the confluence of two rivulets , one of which was ...
... mentioned by Mr Adamfon , in Sir J. Sin- clair's Statistical Account of Scotland . ABERNYTE , a finall village in the above - men- tioned parish , to which it gives name , fituated on the confluence of two rivulets , one of which was ...
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... MENTIONED , are very properly joined by hyphens , as they are evident compound words ; but there would be no end of compounds , if every win that occurs in language were to be joined us the prepofition that goes before it . In the ...
... MENTIONED , are very properly joined by hyphens , as they are evident compound words ; but there would be no end of compounds , if every win that occurs in language were to be joined us the prepofition that goes before it . In the ...
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