Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T.G. Bradford). |
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... less than sixty - nine . Four popes lie interred in the cathedral . Not far from the city is a warm mineral spring . VITRIOL , GREEN . ( See Copperas . ) VITRIOL , OIL OF ; the old name for sulphuric acid . ( See Sulphur . ) VITRUVIUS ...
... less than sixty - nine . Four popes lie interred in the cathedral . Not far from the city is a warm mineral spring . VITRIOL , GREEN . ( See Copperas . ) VITRIOL , OIL OF ; the old name for sulphuric acid . ( See Sulphur . ) VITRUVIUS ...
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... less destructive than it would otherwise have been , and the remains of the French army were enabled to rally at the foot of the Pyrenees , where Soult put them again in order , and strove to oppose Wellington , who was prevented also ...
... less destructive than it would otherwise have been , and the remains of the French army were enabled to rally at the foot of the Pyrenees , where Soult put them again in order , and strove to oppose Wellington , who was prevented also ...
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... less tense ; or ( according to the opinion of Dodart and Cuvier ) form certain cavities , in which the tones are produced , as in wind instruments ; or , perhaps , operate in both ways at the same time . But the length of the windpipe ...
... less tense ; or ( according to the opinion of Dodart and Cuvier ) form certain cavities , in which the tones are produced , as in wind instruments ; or , perhaps , operate in both ways at the same time . But the length of the windpipe ...
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... less than twenty - one active volcanoes . This great volcanic chain , after having pursued its course for several thousand miles from south to north , turns off in a side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau ...
... less than twenty - one active volcanoes . This great volcanic chain , after having pursued its course for several thousand miles from south to north , turns off in a side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau ...
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... less inclination for the poetic art than for the severe sciences , and composed a fine Latin poem upon physics . But he soon after devoted him- self entirely to physical inquiries , and laid the foundation of his fame in two treatises ...
... less inclination for the poetic art than for the severe sciences , and composed a fine Latin poem upon physics . But he soon after devoted him- self entirely to physical inquiries , and laid the foundation of his fame in two treatises ...
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