The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature: A - Ana, Band 2Black, 1853 - 840 Seiten |
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... Roman Abacus . The Romans borrowed their Abacus from the Greeks , and never aspired higher in the pursuit of science . To each pebble or counter required for that board they gave the name of calculus , a diminutive formed from calx , a ...
... Roman Abacus . The Romans borrowed their Abacus from the Greeks , and never aspired higher in the pursuit of science . To each pebble or counter required for that board they gave the name of calculus , a diminutive formed from calx , a ...
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... Roman empire , and was particularly fitted for the slothful religious orders who fattened on its ruins , and , relinquish- ing every manly pursuit , recommended silence as a virtue , or enjoined it as an obligation . Our venerable Bede ...
... Roman empire , and was particularly fitted for the slothful religious orders who fattened on its ruins , and , relinquish- ing every manly pursuit , recommended silence as a virtue , or enjoined it as an obligation . Our venerable Bede ...
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... Roman mythology , it is the name of a stone which Saturn swallowed , by the contrivance of his wife Ops , believing it to be his new - born son Jupiter : hence it became the object of religious worship . ABE , " Aẞa , in Ancient ...
... Roman mythology , it is the name of a stone which Saturn swallowed , by the contrivance of his wife Ops , believing it to be his new - born son Jupiter : hence it became the object of religious worship . ABE , " Aẞa , in Ancient ...
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... Roman Catholic Emancipation . In 1828 he published six tions . of his parliamentary speeches on that subject . He died May 8. 1829 . ABBOTSBURY , a parish and market - town on the coast of Dorsetshire . It has the ruins of an abbey ...
... Roman Catholic Emancipation . In 1828 he published six tions . of his parliamentary speeches on that subject . He died May 8. 1829 . ABBOTSBURY , a parish and market - town on the coast of Dorsetshire . It has the ruins of an abbey ...
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... Roman magistrates were said " to abdicate , " when , from informality in the auspices , utpote vitiosi , or for any other reason , they quitted their office before the usual term had expired . Abdication was also used for the act ...
... Roman magistrates were said " to abdicate , " when , from informality in the auspices , utpote vitiosi , or for any other reason , they quitted their office before the usual term had expired . Abdication was also used for the act ...
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