Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, 第 8 巻W. & R. Chambers, 1891 |
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... remains of mosses and other marsh plants . The remains of the plants are often so well preserved in it that the species can be easily distinguished . Reeds , rushes , and other aquatic plants may usually be traced in peat , and stems of ...
... remains of mosses and other marsh plants . The remains of the plants are often so well preserved in it that the species can be easily distinguished . Reeds , rushes , and other aquatic plants may usually be traced in peat , and stems of ...
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... remains are to be found in Egypt , Asia Minor , Sicily , Sardinia , Spain , & c . , as well as in Greece and Italy . The most important ancient Cyclopean works in Greece are the walls of Tiryns , Psophis , and Mycena , the Lion Gate and ...
... remains are to be found in Egypt , Asia Minor , Sicily , Sardinia , Spain , & c . , as well as in Greece and Italy . The most important ancient Cyclopean works in Greece are the walls of Tiryns , Psophis , and Mycena , the Lion Gate and ...
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... remains of a species - Palaeudyptes antarcticus -which existed in New Zealand in late Eocene or early Miocene times . This bird differed from existing penguins in having rather longer wings , and may therefore conceivably have possessed ...
... remains of a species - Palaeudyptes antarcticus -which existed in New Zealand in late Eocene or early Miocene times . This bird differed from existing penguins in having rather longer wings , and may therefore conceivably have possessed ...
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... remains of a great British fort , Dinas Penmaen . Not Penn , WILLIAM , the founder of the colony of Pennsylvania , was the son of Admiral William Penn , and was born at London , 14th October 1644 . His early years were spent partly in ...
... remains of a great British fort , Dinas Penmaen . Not Penn , WILLIAM , the founder of the colony of Pennsylvania , was the son of Admiral William Penn , and was born at London , 14th October 1644 . His early years were spent partly in ...
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... remains of Glasney College , founded and none of a palace of the bishops of Exeter . in 1264 for thirteen Black Augustinian Canons ; Neighbouring quarries supply the famous Penryn Chatham Docks , and other great public works ; granite ...
... remains of Glasney College , founded and none of a palace of the bishops of Exeter . in 1264 for thirteen Black Augustinian Canons ; Neighbouring quarries supply the famous Penryn Chatham Docks , and other great public works ; granite ...
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311 ページ - ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work, and...
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92 ページ - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament...
72 ページ - ... states. In the old state, she possesses fine powers of penmanship ; while in the new she writes a poor awkward hand, having not had time or means to become expert.
192 ページ - Nations, being crimes not against any particular State, but against all mankind, may be punished in the competent tribunal of any country where the offender may be found, or into which he may be carried, although committed on board a foreign vessel on the high seas.