The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ..., Volume 3John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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... called ' the treaty . To handle , is not to shake hands . The word treatise should be banished as impure , and the word treaty employed as identical in meaning with tractate , which by some writers has been inconveniently abridged into ...
... called ' the treaty . To handle , is not to shake hands . The word treatise should be banished as impure , and the word treaty employed as identical in meaning with tractate , which by some writers has been inconveniently abridged into ...
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... called the land- ship ; in English , the visible whole of a region is called the land- scape - the prospect of the country . It also means the imitation of a prospect in painting - a landscape - painter , Prospect signifies that which ...
... called the land- ship ; in English , the visible whole of a region is called the land- scape - the prospect of the country . It also means the imitation of a prospect in painting - a landscape - painter , Prospect signifies that which ...
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... called , that is , under the belfry , an evident proof that the lightning was attracted to that part of the church by the bells . It has , I believe , frequently been found , that the super- stitious practice in catholic countries of ...
... called , that is , under the belfry , an evident proof that the lightning was attracted to that part of the church by the bells . It has , I believe , frequently been found , that the super- stitious practice in catholic countries of ...
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... called a Petrel , I find the word mordible used for what is generally termed mandible . I never saw the word elsewhere , nor is it in Johnson's Dictionary , yet it seems a very proper one , and in this instance more so than mandi- ble ...
... called a Petrel , I find the word mordible used for what is generally termed mandible . I never saw the word elsewhere , nor is it in Johnson's Dictionary , yet it seems a very proper one , and in this instance more so than mandi- ble ...
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... called the hundred of Llyn , and forms a promontory not very dissi- milar in shape to the county of Cornwall . Its length is about 22 miles , and its extreme breadth somewhat exceeds 10 miles ; at its western extremity , however , it is ...
... called the hundred of Llyn , and forms a promontory not very dissi- milar in shape to the county of Cornwall . Its length is about 22 miles , and its extreme breadth somewhat exceeds 10 miles ; at its western extremity , however , it is ...
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