CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA: A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOPLE. IN TEN VOLUMES. VOL. II.1872 |
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... Roman Catholic countries . Bells had mostly pious inscriptions , often indicative of the wide - spread belief in the mysterious virtue of their sound . They were believed to disperse storms and pestilence , drive away enemies ...
... Roman Catholic countries . Bells had mostly pious inscriptions , often indicative of the wide - spread belief in the mysterious virtue of their sound . They were believed to disperse storms and pestilence , drive away enemies ...
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... Roman colony . The Cartha- ginians under Hanno were twice decisively defeated in the immediate neighbourhood , during the second Punic war . It rapidly rose to a place of importance under the Roman empire , and was visited at various ...
... Roman colony . The Cartha- ginians under Hanno were twice decisively defeated in the immediate neighbourhood , during the second Punic war . It rapidly rose to a place of importance under the Roman empire , and was visited at various ...
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... Roman Catholics , have one minister each . BERMU'DAS , or SO'MMERS'S ISLES , were so named respectively from Bermudez , a Spaniard , who first sighted them in 1527 , and from Sir George Sommers , an Englishman , whose shipwreck here in ...
... Roman Catholics , have one minister each . BERMU'DAS , or SO'MMERS'S ISLES , were so named respectively from Bermudez , a Spaniard , who first sighted them in 1527 , and from Sir George Sommers , an Englishman , whose shipwreck here in ...
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... Roman military station . In modern times , after undergoing many changes , it finally came into the possession of France in 1674. Several streets and places in B. still bear old Roman names ; and in the neigh- bourhood are found ruins ...
... Roman military station . In modern times , after undergoing many changes , it finally came into the possession of France in 1674. Several streets and places in B. still bear old Roman names ; and in the neigh- bourhood are found ruins ...
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... Roman lady , and the founder of several nunneries at Bethlehem ; the tomb of St. Eudosia ; and the pit into which it is supposed the bodies of the murdered innocents were cast . B. is under the jurisdiction of the pasha of Jerusalem ...
... Roman lady , and the founder of several nunneries at Bethlehem ; the tomb of St. Eudosia ; and the pit into which it is supposed the bodies of the murdered innocents were cast . B. is under the jurisdiction of the pasha of Jerusalem ...
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