Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Ed.; Including a Copius Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed., of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 13Lea & Blanchard, 1844 |
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... became manifest as soon as they came in contact with the Franks on the Loire , when the Catholic Clovis ( q . v . ) , on pretence that it was unjust to let the heretic Visigoths possess the fairest portion of Gaul , attacked the ...
... became manifest as soon as they came in contact with the Franks on the Loire , when the Catholic Clovis ( q . v . ) , on pretence that it was unjust to let the heretic Visigoths possess the fairest portion of Gaul , attacked the ...
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... became the terror of the Span- ish troops , maintaining an incessant and destructive guerilla war . Notwithstand- ing the great efforts of the royal com- manders , and their great numerical su- periority , he sustained a struggle for ...
... became the terror of the Span- ish troops , maintaining an incessant and destructive guerilla war . Notwithstand- ing the great efforts of the royal com- manders , and their great numerical su- periority , he sustained a struggle for ...
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... became master of a small patri- monial estate , than he converted it into money , and embarked for the Levant , travelled through several parts of Egypt and Syria , and , after a residence for some time in a Maronite convent on mount ...
... became master of a small patri- monial estate , than he converted it into money , and embarked for the Levant , travelled through several parts of Egypt and Syria , and , after a residence for some time in a Maronite convent on mount ...
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... became intimate with the elder Caumartin , who awakened in him a great admiration of Henry IV , and of Sully , and gave him a lively idea of the court of Louis XIV . Hence originated the Henriade and the Siècle de Louis XIV . In 1716 ...
... became intimate with the elder Caumartin , who awakened in him a great admiration of Henry IV , and of Sully , and gave him a lively idea of the court of Louis XIV . Hence originated the Henriade and the Siècle de Louis XIV . In 1716 ...
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... became unfortunate , repented of what he had done , and Voltaire became again his benefactor . Being arrested on account of a dishonorable accusation , the abbé owed to Voltaire's influence with madam de Prie his freedom , his honor ...
... became unfortunate , repented of what he had done , and Voltaire became again his benefactor . Being arrested on account of a dishonorable accusation , the abbé owed to Voltaire's influence with madam de Prie his freedom , his honor ...
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