British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volum 9Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 |
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... reason to believe that cannons were used in the battle of Cressy , which was fought in 1346. They seem even to have been used three years earlier at the siege of Algesiras ; but before this time , they must have been known in Germany ...
... reason to believe that cannons were used in the battle of Cressy , which was fought in 1346. They seem even to have been used three years earlier at the siege of Algesiras ; but before this time , they must have been known in Germany ...
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... reason of the necessity the law supposes them under of attending the King's person ; but no peer is to go out of the kingdom without the King's leave , and when that is granted , he is to return with the King's writ , or forfeit goods ...
... reason of the necessity the law supposes them under of attending the King's person ; but no peer is to go out of the kingdom without the King's leave , and when that is granted , he is to return with the King's writ , or forfeit goods ...
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... reason the plant is called evening , or night prim- rose ; the mode of their expanding is cu- rious ; the petals are held together at the top by the hooks at the end of the calyx ; the segments of which first separate at bottom ...
... reason the plant is called evening , or night prim- rose ; the mode of their expanding is cu- rious ; the petals are held together at the top by the hooks at the end of the calyx ; the segments of which first separate at bottom ...
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... reason it is not so grateful to an English palate . The olive seldom be- comes a large tree ; two or three stems frequently rise from the same root , from twenty to thirty feet in height , putting out branches almost their whole length ...
... reason it is not so grateful to an English palate . The olive seldom be- comes a large tree ; two or three stems frequently rise from the same root , from twenty to thirty feet in height , putting out branches almost their whole length ...
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... reasons of the several modifications or alterations which the rays of light undergo in the eye ; and shows why objects ... reason of this power ; and it is sup- posed that the ancient engravers made use of a glass globe filled with water ...
... reasons of the several modifications or alterations which the rays of light undergo in the eye ; and shows why objects ... reason of this power ; and it is sup- posed that the ancient engravers made use of a glass globe filled with water ...
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