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... kind , ' the provision for the poor is purely voluntary ; ' yet their liberality is proverbial throughout Britain and America . Their number at present amounts , it is believed , to about 120,000 , of whom more than 90,000 belong to the ...
... kind , ' the provision for the poor is purely voluntary ; ' yet their liberality is proverbial throughout Britain and America . Their number at present amounts , it is believed , to about 120,000 , of whom more than 90,000 belong to the ...
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... kind is now applied in metal - working , unless in the concentrated form of charcoal . Wood contains so large a proportion of water as to reduce its heat - giving quality both in quantity and in- tensity , and contains less than half ...
... kind is now applied in metal - working , unless in the concentrated form of charcoal . Wood contains so large a proportion of water as to reduce its heat - giving quality both in quantity and in- tensity , and contains less than half ...
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... kind of typhus fever , 16th August 1661 , and was buried in the chancel of Cranford church . The Latin epitaph inscribed on a mural tablet there is not so brief as his own suggestion Here lies Fuller's earth , ' but contains a conceit ...
... kind of typhus fever , 16th August 1661 , and was buried in the chancel of Cranford church . The Latin epitaph inscribed on a mural tablet there is not so brief as his own suggestion Here lies Fuller's earth , ' but contains a conceit ...
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... kind of it was used for making safety - plugs for steam- boilers . For the latter purpose it melts when the pressure of the steam becomes dangerously high . It was found , however , that the alloy underwent some change , by being kept ...
... kind of it was used for making safety - plugs for steam- boilers . For the latter purpose it melts when the pressure of the steam becomes dangerously high . It was found , however , that the alloy underwent some change , by being kept ...
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... kind of indirect tax , but more especially the tax upon salt . This impost , first levied in 1286 , in the reign of Philippe IV . , was meant to be only temporary , but was declared It varied in the different perpetual by Charles V ...
... kind of indirect tax , but more especially the tax upon salt . This impost , first levied in 1286 , in the reign of Philippe IV . , was meant to be only temporary , but was declared It varied in the different perpetual by Charles V ...
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 5 Affichage du livre entier - 1901 |
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 5 Affichage du livre entier - 1901 |
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 5 Robert Chambers Affichage du livre entier - 1890 |
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