Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Том 16Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... provinces beyond the Eu- Anticchus phrates . This man made an infamous attempt on Ti- ridates , a youth of great beauty ; which so enraged his brother Arsaces , that he excited his countrymen to revolt ; and before Antiochus had leisure ...
... provinces beyond the Eu- Anticchus phrates . This man made an infamous attempt on Ti- ridates , a youth of great beauty ; which so enraged his brother Arsaces , that he excited his countrymen to revolt ; and before Antiochus had leisure ...
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... province of Babylon , voluntarily submitted to him . The city itself was , after a vigorous resistance , taken by storm ; by which means he became master of 4 all Chaldea and Assyria , the two richest provinces of F the Parthian empire ...
... province of Babylon , voluntarily submitted to him . The city itself was , after a vigorous resistance , taken by storm ; by which means he became master of 4 all Chaldea and Assyria , the two richest provinces of F the Parthian empire ...
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... province . On his arrival there , he was met by ambassadors from Vologeses ; who having recovered most of the provinces subdued by Cas- sius , and being unwilling either to part with them or en- gage in a new war , solicited the emperor ...
... province . On his arrival there , he was met by ambassadors from Vologeses ; who having recovered most of the provinces subdued by Cas- sius , and being unwilling either to part with them or en- gage in a new war , solicited the emperor ...
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... province : he was a very learned man , an able mathematician , and a friend of Descartes . Having an extraordinary tender ness for this child , his only son , he quitted his office in his province , and went and settled at Paris in 1631 ...
... province : he was a very learned man , an able mathematician , and a friend of Descartes . Having an extraordinary tender ness for this child , his only son , he quitted his office in his province , and went and settled at Paris in 1631 ...
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... province of Or- leannois , remarkable for the defeat of the English in 1429 , and where Joan of Arc did wonders . E. Long . 1. 43. N. Lat . 48. 5 . PATE , in Fortification , a kind of platform , resem- bling what is called an horse's ...
... province of Or- leannois , remarkable for the defeat of the English in 1429 , and where Joan of Arc did wonders . E. Long . 1. 43. N. Lat . 48. 5 . PATE , in Fortification , a kind of platform , resem- bling what is called an horse's ...
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