CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA: A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOPLE. IN TEN VOLUMES. VOL. II.1872 |
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... chiefly known as giving name to his death . The three luminaries ' were Cicero , the adjacent strait on the south - west , which , separat - Seneca , and Pliny , out of whose works he intended ing Labrador from Newfoundland , forms the ...
... chiefly known as giving name to his death . The three luminaries ' were Cicero , the adjacent strait on the south - west , which , separat - Seneca , and Pliny , out of whose works he intended ing Labrador from Newfoundland , forms the ...
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... chiefly occupied by thium mutabile and Cyrena pulchra . 3. The oyster- flights of steps , or ghats , as they are called , where bed , consisting of greenish marl , and containing crowds of all classes spend the day in business , immense ...
... chiefly occupied by thium mutabile and Cyrena pulchra . 3. The oyster- flights of steps , or ghats , as they are called , where bed , consisting of greenish marl , and containing crowds of all classes spend the day in business , immense ...
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... chiefly of bog , sand , and lake , resting on a substratum of gneiss rock , with a very broken coast - line . Pop . 1718 , consisting of fishermen and small farmers , who fertilise the soil with the sea- weed which is cast ashore on the ...
... chiefly of bog , sand , and lake , resting on a substratum of gneiss rock , with a very broken coast - line . Pop . 1718 , consisting of fishermen and small farmers , who fertilise the soil with the sea- weed which is cast ashore on the ...
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... chiefly interesting to the traveller , as having been the site of the ancient city of Hesperis , in the neighbourhood of which were several singularly luxuriant dells of large extent , enclosed within steep rocks rising to the height of ...
... chiefly interesting to the traveller , as having been the site of the ancient city of Hesperis , in the neighbourhood of which were several singularly luxuriant dells of large extent , enclosed within steep rocks rising to the height of ...
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... chiefly by Mr. Kemble , of whose beautiful edition , published by Pickering in 1833 , and dedicated to James Grimm , the celebrated Teutonic scholar , as also of his subsequent transla- tion and second preface , we shall avail ourselves ...
... chiefly by Mr. Kemble , of whose beautiful edition , published by Pickering in 1833 , and dedicated to James Grimm , the celebrated Teutonic scholar , as also of his subsequent transla- tion and second preface , we shall avail ourselves ...
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