Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 6Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... Christian era , those of Kitan or Lyau got a footing in China . The Kitan were a people of eastern Tartary , who dwelt to the north and north - east of the province of Pecheli in China , particularly in that of Lyau - tong , lying with ...
... Christian era , those of Kitan or Lyau got a footing in China . The Kitan were a people of eastern Tartary , who dwelt to the north and north - east of the province of Pecheli in China , particularly in that of Lyau - tong , lying with ...
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... Christians ; though much nor to plunder . The most formidable enemy he had addicted to the superstitions of the Bonzes . He to deal with was Chen - yew - lyang , styled , “ emperor of found himself engaged in a war with the Tartars ...
... Christians ; though much nor to plunder . The most formidable enemy he had addicted to the superstitions of the Bonzes . He to deal with was Chen - yew - lyang , styled , “ emperor of found himself engaged in a war with the Tartars ...
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... Christian religion ; ty and in favour of the latter he published a decree , dated cou in 1692. But in 1716 , he revived some obsolete laws and against the Christians ; nor could the Jesuits with all per their art preserve the footing ...
... Christian religion ; ty and in favour of the latter he published a decree , dated cou in 1692. But in 1716 , he revived some obsolete laws and against the Christians ; nor could the Jesuits with all per their art preserve the footing ...
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... Christianity , tell- 106 choui , China , ing the most absurd stories. China : nasties , this sect became more and ... Christian æra , and soon made vast progress . One of its principal doctrines is that of the metempsychosis , or ...
... Christianity , tell- 106 choui , China , ing the most absurd stories. China : nasties , this sect became more and ... Christian æra , and soon made vast progress . One of its principal doctrines is that of the metempsychosis , or ...
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... Christian era , that succeeding is not determined ; but they must be uniform , and pregenerations might consider him as the first civilized sent the same distribution of rhymes . The small num . emperor who had swayed the sceptre over ...
... Christian era , that succeeding is not determined ; but they must be uniform , and pregenerations might consider him as the first civilized sent the same distribution of rhymes . The small num . emperor who had swayed the sceptre over ...
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Página 355 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
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Página 246 - ... these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces : no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Página 246 - These principles I consider not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the specific forms of things, but as general laws of nature by which the things themselves are formed : their truth appearing to us by phenomena, though their causes be not yet discovered. For these are manifest qualities, and their causes only are occult.
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