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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... origin of all the different species of collars since used - the innocent parent of those thick , hot folds , in which the neck was destined to be afterwards muffled . Ruffs , stiffened or plaited , single or in many rows , an ...
... origin of all the different species of collars since used - the innocent parent of those thick , hot folds , in which the neck was destined to be afterwards muffled . Ruffs , stiffened or plaited , single or in many rows , an ...
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... origin , who had intermarried with Spaniards or Frenchmen . The Creoles , in general , be- fore the revolution , were very lazy , leav- ing the mechanical arts and husbandry altogether to the Mulattoes , Negroes or Indians ; and , even ...
... origin , who had intermarried with Spaniards or Frenchmen . The Creoles , in general , be- fore the revolution , were very lazy , leav- ing the mechanical arts and husbandry altogether to the Mulattoes , Negroes or Indians ; and , even ...
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... origin of some gram- matical formations and modes of expres- on , is hardly to be doubted . When the VOL . IV . 2 13 allied armies invaded France , and the Russian and German soldiers were often under the necessity of communicating with ...
... origin of some gram- matical formations and modes of expres- on , is hardly to be doubted . When the VOL . IV . 2 13 allied armies invaded France , and the Russian and German soldiers were often under the necessity of communicating with ...
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... origin of the festival of the finding of the cross , which the Catholic church celebrates on the third of May . Standards and weapons were now orna- mented with it , and the emperor Herac- lius thought he had recovered the palla- dium ...
... origin of the festival of the finding of the cross , which the Catholic church celebrates on the third of May . Standards and weapons were now orna- mented with it , and the emperor Herac- lius thought he had recovered the palla- dium ...
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... origin , ascribes the invention of wreaths to Prometheus , who imitated , with flowers , the fetters which he had borne for his love to man- kind , whom he had created . According to Pliny , wreaths were first made of ivy , and Bacchus ...
... origin , ascribes the invention of wreaths to Prometheus , who imitated , with flowers , the fetters which he had borne for his love to man- kind , whom he had created . According to Pliny , wreaths were first made of ivy , and Bacchus ...
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