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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAIGNTON , a seaside resort in the See also:

Torquay See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Devonshire, See also:England, on See also:Tar See also:Bay, 24 m. S.W. of Torquay, on the See also:Great Western railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 8385. The See also:church of St See also:John is mainly Perpendicular, 6 What the Fihrist (p. 13 seq.) has about various forms of See also:Persian See also:writing certainly refers in See also:part at least to the See also:species of See also:Pahlavi. But the statements are hardly all reliable, and in the lack of See also:trust• worthy specimens little can be made of them. This was finally proved by See also:Olshausen, following earlier scholars; see J. Olshausen, Parthava and Pahlav, Mada and Mah (See also:Berlin, 1877, and in the Monatsb. of the See also:Academy). ' See also:Translations ed. by F. Spiegel (186o), the Bundahish by N. L. Westergaard (See also:Copenhagen, 1851) and F. justi (See also:Leipzig, 1868) ; other Pahlavi books by Spiegel and See also:Haug, by Hoshangji, and other See also:Indian Parsecs.

3 One other See also:

book, the stories of Kalilag and Dainnag, in a See also:Syriac version from the Pahlavi, the latter taken from the See also:Sanskrit. but has a See also:late See also:Norman See also:doorway, and contains a carved and painted See also:pulpit, and in the Kirkham See also:chapel several interesting monuments of the Kirkham See also:family, and a beautiful though damaged See also:stone See also:screen. Among other buildings and institutions are a novitiate of Marist Fathers, a See also:science and See also:art school, a See also:pier with See also:pavilion and See also:concert rooms, and a yacht See also:club. Little remains of an old See also:palace of the bishops of See also:Exeter apart from the 14th-See also:century See also:Bible See also:Tower. Its last See also:tenant was See also:Bishop See also:Miles See also:Coverdale, who in 1535 published the first See also:English See also:translation of the whole Bible. The See also:town owes its popularity to a See also:firm expanse of See also:sand, See also:good bathing facilities, and a temperate See also:climate.

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