Fifty Celebrated Men: Their Lives and Trials, and the Deeds that Made Them FamousWard, Lock and Tyler, 1862 - 311 pages |
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... appointed to take place on a fixed day . Pizarro had made up his mind how to act : he would betray the con- fidence of the monarch , seize him as the vassal of Spain , and make him bleed gold freely . Saturday the 16th of November ...
... appointed to take place on a fixed day . Pizarro had made up his mind how to act : he would betray the con- fidence of the monarch , seize him as the vassal of Spain , and make him bleed gold freely . Saturday the 16th of November ...
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... appointed to the command in the army sent out to inter- cept the Spanish plate fleet , which it is generally acknow- ledged he would have captured , had he not been thwarted by the Earl of Essex . The heroism and devotion of Raleigh ...
... appointed to the command in the army sent out to inter- cept the Spanish plate fleet , which it is generally acknow- ledged he would have captured , had he not been thwarted by the Earl of Essex . The heroism and devotion of Raleigh ...
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... appointed by the Grand Duke of Tuscany to the Professorship of Mathematics in the University of Pisa . Twenty years elapsed before Galileo distinguished him- self by any important discovery . But those years had been profitably employed ...
... appointed by the Grand Duke of Tuscany to the Professorship of Mathematics in the University of Pisa . Twenty years elapsed before Galileo distinguished him- self by any important discovery . But those years had been profitably employed ...
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... appointed Professor of Mathematics . In 1672 , he be- came a Fellow of the Royal Society , to which he commu- nicated his new theory of light and colours - this discovery had employed him many years . So early as 1664 , he bought a ...
... appointed Professor of Mathematics . In 1672 , he be- came a Fellow of the Royal Society , to which he commu- nicated his new theory of light and colours - this discovery had employed him many years . So early as 1664 , he bought a ...
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... appointed to a position of trust and eminence in St. Bartholomew's Hos- pital . In 1615 he delivered a course of lectures on ana- tomy and surgery , and in the delivery of those lectures brought forward his original views upon the ...
... appointed to a position of trust and eminence in St. Bartholomew's Hos- pital . In 1615 he delivered a course of lectures on ana- tomy and surgery , and in the delivery of those lectures brought forward his original views upon the ...
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