Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography, Volume 4Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1830 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... languages in the West Indies . They are spoken by the slaves , who have destroyed the fine grammatical construction of the European languages , and have intermixed with them some original African words . According to the European language ...
... languages in the West Indies . They are spoken by the slaves , who have destroyed the fine grammatical construction of the European languages , and have intermixed with them some original African words . According to the European language ...
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... languages is often considerable in these dialects ; but most of them can be under- stood , without a great deal of ... language- a Crcole dialect spoken in St. Thomas- from a work extracted from the four Gos- pels , entitled Da Tori va ...
... languages is often considerable in these dialects ; but most of them can be under- stood , without a great deal of ... language- a Crcole dialect spoken in St. Thomas- from a work extracted from the four Gos- pels , entitled Da Tori va ...
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... language , and has given rise to the opinion that Crescenzi wrote in his native tongue . He understood the an- cients , and made use of them . His prin- ciples are simple , founded upon experi- ence , and free from many prejudices ...
... language , and has given rise to the opinion that Crescenzi wrote in his native tongue . He understood the an- cients , and made use of them . His prin- ciples are simple , founded upon experi- ence , and free from many prejudices ...
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... languages , most politely . He was a most excellent horseman ; and , tru- ly , if a man should live a hundred years without eating , drinking or sleeping , he could not attain to this man's knowledge , which struck us with a panic ; for ...
... languages , most politely . He was a most excellent horseman ; and , tru- ly , if a man should live a hundred years without eating , drinking or sleeping , he could not attain to this man's knowledge , which struck us with a panic ; for ...
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... language is the Slave- no - Horwatic dialect . In Turkish Croatia ( on the Unna and near Bihatsch ) , they are Greek Catholics . Civil Croatia is fertile , and intersected by heights of very moderate elevation , extending down from ...
... language is the Slave- no - Horwatic dialect . In Turkish Croatia ( on the Unna and near Bihatsch ) , they are Greek Catholics . Civil Croatia is fertile , and intersected by heights of very moderate elevation , extending down from ...
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