Fifty Celebrated Men: Their Lives and Trials, and the Deeds that Made Them FamousWard, Lock and Tyler, 1862 - 311 pages |
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... triumph , which in our ears , " says one of those who were present , sounded like the songs of hell ! " As the leading lines of the procession entered the 66 great square , they opened to the right and left 10 MEN OF ENTERPRISE AND DARING .
... triumph , which in our ears , " says one of those who were present , sounded like the songs of hell ! " As the leading lines of the procession entered the 66 great square , they opened to the right and left 10 MEN OF ENTERPRISE AND DARING .
Page 55
... triumph . " " There The following argument is a specimen of the sort of logic which contemporary astronomers brought against the system of Galileo . Thus , on the question of there being no more than seven planets , Sizzi argues : are ...
... triumph . " " There The following argument is a specimen of the sort of logic which contemporary astronomers brought against the system of Galileo . Thus , on the question of there being no more than seven planets , Sizzi argues : are ...
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... triumph of making known steam power as something really useful . He seized the wondrous genii , and con- fined them , not in a bottle , like the hero of the Arabian Nights , but in a boiler . It is of great importance for the ...
... triumph of making known steam power as something really useful . He seized the wondrous genii , and con- fined them , not in a bottle , like the hero of the Arabian Nights , but in a boiler . It is of great importance for the ...
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... triumph . Pompey , once his sworn friend , but latterly his bitterest foe , fled at his approach , was pursued , blockaded in Dyrrachium , and defeated at Pharsalia . Soon after this Caesar was created Dictator , and commenced a long ...
... triumph . Pompey , once his sworn friend , but latterly his bitterest foe , fled at his approach , was pursued , blockaded in Dyrrachium , and defeated at Pharsalia . Soon after this Caesar was created Dictator , and commenced a long ...
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... triumph . He was transferred from Vienna to Worms , and there impri- soned in one of the imperial fortresses . Philip of France wrote him a defiant letter , and was excessively boastful , which , seeing that his enemy was behind iron ...
... triumph . He was transferred from Vienna to Worms , and there impri- soned in one of the imperial fortresses . Philip of France wrote him a defiant letter , and was excessively boastful , which , seeing that his enemy was behind iron ...
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