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... applied to persons having personal preeminence , and especially to certain sovereigns of smaller states possessing either perfect independence of all others or enjoying under some superior high political rights . Of the first kind were ...
... applied to persons having personal preeminence , and especially to certain sovereigns of smaller states possessing either perfect independence of all others or enjoying under some superior high political rights . Of the first kind were ...
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... applied himself earnestly to the consideration of the means whereby it might be mitigated or removed . Prior to this it had been the custom to place the sick and wounded at a distance from the army , but even then it often happened that ...
... applied himself earnestly to the consideration of the means whereby it might be mitigated or removed . Prior to this it had been the custom to place the sick and wounded at a distance from the army , but even then it often happened that ...
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... applied to it , and yet not so perfectly fluid ( like water ) as to refuse to retain the form so given to it , or upon a substance sufficiently bibulous or otherwise attractive as to receive colour from some pigment with which the stamp ...
... applied to it , and yet not so perfectly fluid ( like water ) as to refuse to retain the form so given to it , or upon a substance sufficiently bibulous or otherwise attractive as to receive colour from some pigment with which the stamp ...
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... applied . In such a language as the Chinese , which is without an alphabet , or , at least , in which the elementary characters have not been reduced to the same limited and commodious number as in most other languages by making them ...
... applied . In such a language as the Chinese , which is without an alphabet , or , at least , in which the elementary characters have not been reduced to the same limited and commodious number as in most other languages by making them ...
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... applied to the machine used for letter - press printing or copper - plate printing , but more usually the former . The date of the invention of the printing - press is unknown , but some con- trivance for this purpose must have been ...
... applied to the machine used for letter - press printing or copper - plate printing , but more usually the former . The date of the invention of the printing - press is unknown , but some con- trivance for this purpose must have been ...
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