The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Volume 6Werner Company, 1907 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... ENGLISH NINTH EDITION IN TWENTY - FIVE VOLUMES WAS EDITED BY PROFS . SPENCER BAYNES , LL.D. , AND W. ROBERTSON SMITH , LL.D. ASSISTED BY OVER ONE THOUSAND CONTRIBUTORS The first twenty - four volumes of the New Werner Edition contain ...
... ENGLISH NINTH EDITION IN TWENTY - FIVE VOLUMES WAS EDITED BY PROFS . SPENCER BAYNES , LL.D. , AND W. ROBERTSON SMITH , LL.D. ASSISTED BY OVER ONE THOUSAND CONTRIBUTORS The first twenty - four volumes of the New Werner Edition contain ...
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... English Channel or through Belgium and North Germany , while high pressure prevails in the north , the winter is characterized by frosts and snows . The worst summer weather in Great Britain is when low pressures prevail over the North ...
... English Channel or through Belgium and North Germany , while high pressure prevails in the north , the winter is characterized by frosts and snows . The worst summer weather in Great Britain is when low pressures prevail over the North ...
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... English . Its castle , probably built not long after , was a fortress of the Lacy family , and con- tinued a defensible position till 1649 , when it was dismantled by the Parliamentary forces . The Honor of Clitheroe , for a long time a ...
... English . Its castle , probably built not long after , was a fortress of the Lacy family , and con- tinued a defensible position till 1649 , when it was dismantled by the Parliamentary forces . The Honor of Clitheroe , for a long time a ...
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... English reached the Mahrat- ta allies of Mahomed Ali , who advanced to Clive's rescue . This led the enemy to redouble their exertions , but in vain . After for fifty days besieging the fort , and offering large sums to Clive to ...
... English reached the Mahrat- ta allies of Mahomed Ali , who advanced to Clive's rescue . This led the enemy to redouble their exertions , but in vain . After for fifty days besieging the fort , and offering large sums to Clive to ...
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... English officials . After a brief tenure Kossim Ali had fled , had ordered Summers , or Sumroo , a Swiss mercenary of his , to butcher the garri- son of 150 English at Patna , and had disappeared under the protection of his brother ...
... English officials . After a brief tenure Kossim Ali had fled , had ordered Summers , or Sumroo , a Swiss mercenary of his , to butcher the garri- son of 150 English at Patna , and had disappeared under the protection of his brother ...
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