Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 3W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1901 - 828 pages |
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... chief business . Linseed in various forms is very extensively used in calf- rearing . Cattle are very variously used , and are the only or the chief beasts of draught in many countries , as Cape Colony and large part of America . In ...
... chief business . Linseed in various forms is very extensively used in calf- rearing . Cattle are very variously used , and are the only or the chief beasts of draught in many countries , as Cape Colony and large part of America . In ...
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... chief crops are oats and potatoes , the cultivation of flax having greatly decreased since 1850. The farms are small . Agriculture forms the staple industry , but linen is manufactured to a considerable extent . The chief towns are ...
... chief crops are oats and potatoes , the cultivation of flax having greatly decreased since 1850. The farms are small . Agriculture forms the staple industry , but linen is manufactured to a considerable extent . The chief towns are ...
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... chief - justice Sir John Cavendish , who in 1381 was beheaded at Bury St Edmunds by Jack Straw's followers ; and from Sir William Cavendish of Cavendish , Suffolk ( circa 1505-57 ) , a brother of Wolsey's biographer . His third wife ...
... chief - justice Sir John Cavendish , who in 1381 was beheaded at Bury St Edmunds by Jack Straw's followers ; and from Sir William Cavendish of Cavendish , Suffolk ( circa 1505-57 ) , a brother of Wolsey's biographer . His third wife ...
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... chief men of his time . He was diligent in the exercise of his · craft or in translation till within a few hours of his death , which seems to have happened about the close of the year 1491. Gibbon denounces Caxton's choice of books ...
... chief men of his time . He was diligent in the exercise of his · craft or in translation till within a few hours of his death , which seems to have happened about the close of the year 1491. Gibbon denounces Caxton's choice of books ...
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... chief , whose power rested on the army , and CENTRAL PROVINCES 65 who centred in himself all the great functions of government . In the later days of the empire the tendency increased , until the system broke down with the power that ...
... chief , whose power rested on the army , and CENTRAL PROVINCES 65 who centred in himself all the great functions of government . In the later days of the empire the tendency increased , until the system broke down with the power that ...
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