The New International Encyclopaedia, Volume 11Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby Dodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... Land , land ; connected with Ir . lann , land , Welsh llan , land , OChurch Slav . lendina , waste land , OPruss . lindan , valley ; influenced by popular etymology with the unre- lated isle ) . A relatively small body of land en tirely ...
... Land , land ; connected with Ir . lann , land , Welsh llan , land , OChurch Slav . lendina , waste land , OPruss . lindan , valley ; influenced by popular etymology with the unre- lated isle ) . A relatively small body of land en tirely ...
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... land . The name Isthmus was by the ancients often employed without any addition to designate the Isthmus of Corinth ... land adapted for tillage , but its pasture lands are extensive as well as its forests . The climate is favorable to ...
... land . The name Isthmus was by the ancients often employed without any addition to designate the Isthmus of Corinth ... land adapted for tillage , but its pasture lands are extensive as well as its forests . The climate is favorable to ...
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... land , and ultimately through the whole Occident . Florence is still to the fore in this period , but there are now other important centres of learn- ing and literary productivity , such as Naples , where the House of Aragon ruled ...
... land , and ultimately through the whole Occident . Florence is still to the fore in this period , but there are now other important centres of learn- ing and literary productivity , such as Naples , where the House of Aragon ruled ...
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... land and by the passage of Florence from the state of a republic to that of a duchy , Italy never had a livelier national consciousness than that which actuated her at this time ; and the development of art always stands in close ...
... land and by the passage of Florence from the state of a republic to that of a duchy , Italy never had a livelier national consciousness than that which actuated her at this time ; and the development of art always stands in close ...
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... land bridge across the Mediterranean , thus uniting the ranges of the Alps with the Atlas . The uplifting of the Apennines took place at a comparatively recent geological period ; Mesozoic and Tertiary strata including limestones ...
... land bridge across the Mediterranean , thus uniting the ranges of the Alps with the Atlas . The uplifting of the Apennines took place at a comparatively recent geological period ; Mesozoic and Tertiary strata including limestones ...
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Page 393 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
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