American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volumen6Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... hands of many of whom the palls have slipped off and left them uncovered : these have all a perfect mummy - likę ap- pearance . " The fall of the avalanche necessarily reduces the quantity of snow and frozen fluid on the summits , and ...
... hands of many of whom the palls have slipped off and left them uncovered : these have all a perfect mummy - likę ap- pearance . " The fall of the avalanche necessarily reduces the quantity of snow and frozen fluid on the summits , and ...
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... to the field , For the bold champions who the cæstus wield . " The leather which composed the cæstus being loaded with lead , enabled the com- batants to give each other mortal blows , though the hands only were used . Epeus , of GLA GLA.
... to the field , For the bold champions who the cæstus wield . " The leather which composed the cæstus being loaded with lead , enabled the com- batants to give each other mortal blows , though the hands only were used . Epeus , of GLA GLA.
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... hands only were used . Epeus , of gigantic stature , challenged the whole of the Grecian chiefs , who were terrified at his bulk , and Euryalus alone accepted his defiance : " Him great Tydides urges to contend , Warm with the hopes of ...
... hands only were used . Epeus , of gigantic stature , challenged the whole of the Grecian chiefs , who were terrified at his bulk , and Euryalus alone accepted his defiance : " Him great Tydides urges to contend , Warm with the hopes of ...
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... hand , he endeavoured to entangle his adversary , and with the fuscina in the left he aimed mortal blows at him ; but as this description of gladiator was invariably opposed to a Secutor , armed with a scy- meter , a buckler , and a ...
... hand , he endeavoured to entangle his adversary , and with the fuscina in the left he aimed mortal blows at him ; but as this description of gladiator was invariably opposed to a Secutor , armed with a scy- meter , a buckler , and a ...
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... hands and fingers were placed , to ex- press praise or disapprobation on those occasions . According to Juvenal , the bending of the thumbs back authorised the conqueror to kill his adversary as a coward . The Emperor might , however ...
... hands and fingers were placed , to ex- press praise or disapprobation on those occasions . According to Juvenal , the bending of the thumbs back authorised the conqueror to kill his adversary as a coward . The Emperor might , however ...
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