The New International Encyclopæeia, Volume 1Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, Daniel Coit Gilman Dodd, Mead, 1909 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... original design has been carried out by those to whom the task has been committed . It therefore seems desirable that , in writing these words of introduction , the Editors of the NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA should set forth as ...
... original design has been carried out by those to whom the task has been committed . It therefore seems desirable that , in writing these words of introduction , the Editors of the NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA should set forth as ...
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... original contributors , so that many articles to which a writer's name is signed are no longer in reality his own . Hence the Editors of the present work have , after much deliberation , dispensed entirely with the signed article . In ...
... original contributors , so that many articles to which a writer's name is signed are no longer in reality his own . Hence the Editors of the present work have , after much deliberation , dispensed entirely with the signed article . In ...
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... original a may be described as a " mid - back - wide " vowel . It had what we may term the ah - sound , familiarly known as the " Italian " or " Continental " a , heard in far , father . By nature a is a simple and easy vowel , made by ...
... original a may be described as a " mid - back - wide " vowel . It had what we may term the ah - sound , familiarly known as the " Italian " or " Continental " a , heard in far , father . By nature a is a simple and easy vowel , made by ...
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... original extent much larger than the present canton , was a part of ancient Helvetia , and was subdued by the Franks in the fifth cen- tury . It was held by the Hapsburgs from 1173 till 1415 , when it was taken from them.
... original extent much larger than the present canton , was a part of ancient Helvetia , and was subdued by the Franks in the fifth cen- tury . It was held by the Hapsburgs from 1173 till 1415 , when it was taken from them.
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... original texts of the Old and New Testaments ( 1892 ) ; A Commentary on Ephesians and Colossians ( 1897 ) ; a trans- lation of Kant's Ethics , with a memoir , and Kant's Introduction to Logic ( fifth edition , 1878 ) . ABBREVIATIONS ...
... original texts of the Old and New Testaments ( 1892 ) ; A Commentary on Ephesians and Colossians ( 1897 ) ; a trans- lation of Kant's Ethics , with a memoir , and Kant's Introduction to Logic ( fifth edition , 1878 ) . ABBREVIATIONS ...
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