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... Russian authorities , 8 Aug. 1866 , was quelled with much bloodshed . ABO , a port of Russia , founded prior to 1157 ... Russians in Feb. 1808 ; ceded to them in 1809 ; and rebuilt by them after the great fire in 1827. The university ...
... Russian authorities , 8 Aug. 1866 , was quelled with much bloodshed . ABO , a port of Russia , founded prior to 1157 ... Russians in Feb. 1808 ; ceded to them in 1809 ; and rebuilt by them after the great fire in 1827. The university ...
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... Russians , on 2 and 10 July , 1849 . ACT OF SETTLEMENT , & c . ; see Accession , Succession , Supremacy , and Uniformity Acts . ACTA SANCTORUM ( “ acts of the saints " ) , a work begun by the Jesuits . The first volume appeared in 1643 ...
... Russians , on 2 and 10 July , 1849 . ACT OF SETTLEMENT , & c . ; see Accession , Succession , Supremacy , and Uniformity Acts . ACTA SANCTORUM ( “ acts of the saints " ) , a work begun by the Jesuits . The first volume appeared in 1643 ...
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... Russians on 20 Aug. 1829 ; and restored 14 Sept. same year ; see Turkey . ADRIATIC . The ceremony of the doge of Venice wedding the Adriatic sea ( instituted about 1173 ) , took place annually on Ascension - day . The doge dropped a ...
... Russians on 20 Aug. 1829 ; and restored 14 Sept. same year ; see Turkey . ADRIATIC . The ceremony of the doge of Venice wedding the Adriatic sea ( instituted about 1173 ) , took place annually on Ascension - day . The doge dropped a ...
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... Russians , 1809 ; see Bomarsund . ALANI , a Tartar race , invaded Parthia , 75. They joined the Huns in invading the ... Russian possessions in North America , purchased by the United States by treaty , 13 March , 1867. Sitka is the ...
... Russians , 1809 ; see Bomarsund . ALANI , a Tartar race , invaded Parthia , 75. They joined the Huns in invading the ... Russian possessions in North America , purchased by the United States by treaty , 13 March , 1867. Sitka is the ...
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... Russians , 1785 . ALEXANDER , ERA OF , dated from the death of Alexander the Great , 12 Nov. 323 B.C. In the computation of this era , the period of the Creation was considered to be 5502 years before the birth of Christ , and , in ...
... Russians , 1785 . ALEXANDER , ERA OF , dated from the death of Alexander the Great , 12 Nov. 323 B.C. In the computation of this era , the period of the Creation was considered to be 5502 years before the birth of Christ , and , in ...
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Page 117 - Indian philosophers, who derive their name from Brahma, one of the three beings whom God, according to their theology, created, and with whose assistance he formed the world. They devoted themselves totally to the worship of the gods, and were accustomed from their youth to endure labours, and to live with frugality and abstinence.
Page 91 - Rosary (a series of 15 large and 150 small beads), in honour of the Blessed Virgin, about 1202. Beads soon after were in general use. The Bead-roll was a list of deceased persons, for the repose of whose souls a certain number of prayers was recited. Beads have been found in British barrows. BEAM AND SCALES. The apparatus for •weighing goods was so called, '' as it weighs so much at the king's beam...
Page 182 - Clogher takes its name from a golden stone, from which, in times of paganism, the devil used to pronounce juggling answers, like the oracles of Apollo Py&iits.
Page 180 - Clarendon was completed in 1712, partly from the profits arising from the sale of Lord Chancellor Clarendon's ' History of the Rebellion,' the copyright of which was given to the University.
Page 268 - Days (twelve annually), about the beginning of the four seasons, are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, in Spring; after the feast of the Pentecost (Whitsunday), Summer; after the festival of the Holy Cross.
Page 174 - Subahdar of Oude and Governor Hastings ; by which the Nabob was relieved of all his debts to the Company, on condition of his seizing the property of the Begums, his mother and grandmother, and delivering it up to the English : this treaty also enabled the Subahdar to take possession of the lands...
Page 68 - BACHELORS. The Roman censors frequently imposed fines on unmarried men ; and men of full age were obliged to marry. The Spartan women at certain games laid hold of old bachelors, dragged them round their altars, and inflicted on them various marks of infamy and disgrace.—• Vossius.
Page 186 - Coffins of marble and stone were used by the Romans. Alexander is said to have been buried in one of gold : and glass coffins have been found in England. — Gough. The earliest record of wooden coffins amongst us, is that of the burial of king Arthur, who was buried in an entire trunk of oak, hollowed, AD 642.
Page 171 - As the champion of God and the ladies (I blush to unite such discordant names), he devoted himself to speak the truth; to maintain the right; to protect the distressed...