Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Zväzok 2,Časť 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Strana 10
... son of one of his flaves , and fent them both back . This was cried up by the courtiers as a princely act : but Zingha reprefented that it could not fail to exafperate the vice- roy ; and tried all poffible means to diffuade him from it ...
... son of one of his flaves , and fent them both back . This was cried up by the courtiers as a princely act : but Zingha reprefented that it could not fail to exafperate the vice- roy ; and tried all poffible means to diffuade him from it ...
Strana 52
... from the Greek , avoμo , differ- ent , diffimilar : For the pure Arians afferted , that the Son was of a nature different from , and in nothing like , that Anomoe- ans . Anorexia . Anemor- that of the Father : whereas the A NO [ ] 52 ANO.
... from the Greek , avoμo , differ- ent , diffimilar : For the pure Arians afferted , that the Son was of a nature different from , and in nothing like , that Anomoe- ans . Anorexia . Anemor- that of the Father : whereas the A NO [ ] 52 ANO.
Strana 53
... Son ; at the fame time that they denied , with the pure Arians , the con- fubftantiality of the World . - The Semi - Arians con- demned the Anomoans in the council of Seleucia ; and the Anomoans in their turn condemned the Semi - A ...
... Son ; at the fame time that they denied , with the pure Arians , the con- fubftantiality of the World . - The Semi - Arians con- demned the Anomoans in the council of Seleucia ; and the Anomoans in their turn condemned the Semi - A ...
Strana 85
... son of Ari- ftobulus . He entered into an alliance with the king of the Parthians , and befieged Jerufalem . He cut off his uncle Hircanus's ears , to incapacitate him for the high- priesthood ; and put Jofephus , Herod's brother , to ...
... son of Ari- ftobulus . He entered into an alliance with the king of the Parthians , and befieged Jerufalem . He cut off his uncle Hircanus's ears , to incapacitate him for the high- priesthood ; and put Jofephus , Herod's brother , to ...
Strana 88
... son , then a child . When the power of the Roman empire began to de- cline , Antioch became the bone of contention between them and the eaftern nations ; and accordingly , on the breaking out of a Perfian war , it was almost always fure ...
... son , then a child . When the power of the Roman empire began to de- cline , Antioch became the bone of contention between them and the eaftern nations ; and accordingly , on the breaking out of a Perfian war , it was almost always fure ...
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