Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 |
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... France and in Spain the kingdom of the Visigoths . The unnatural extension of this kingdom to the north of the Pyr- enees , where even the capital , and the residence of the king , Toulouse , was sit- uated , while the Suevi still ...
... France and in Spain the kingdom of the Visigoths . The unnatural extension of this kingdom to the north of the Pyr- enees , where even the capital , and the residence of the king , Toulouse , was sit- uated , while the Suevi still ...
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... France , Holland , Sweden , Eng- land , Spain , and ( as Gerber says ) even in Africa and Greece . In 1786 , he was ap- pointed chapel - master to the king of Swe- den . In 1790 , he was in London , where his performance on the organ ...
... France , Holland , Sweden , Eng- land , Spain , and ( as Gerber says ) even in Africa and Greece . In 1786 , he was ap- pointed chapel - master to the king of Swe- den . In 1790 , he was in London , where his performance on the organ ...
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... France and Germany , particularly during the Lisbon earthquake . We shall now give some account of a few of the principal volcanic vents , dis- persed through the great regions before described , and consider the composition and ...
... France and Germany , particularly during the Lisbon earthquake . We shall now give some account of a few of the principal volcanic vents , dis- persed through the great regions before described , and consider the composition and ...
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... France , a cele- brated French writer , was born at Craon , in Brittany , in 1755. Inspired , at an early age , with a desire to visit foreign countries in search of knowledge , he no sooner became master of a small patri- monial estate ...
... France , a cele- brated French writer , was born at Craon , in Brittany , in 1755. Inspired , at an early age , with a desire to visit foreign countries in search of knowledge , he no sooner became master of a small patri- monial estate ...
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... France , Germany , England and Holland , on which occasion he was treated with great respect by Hal- ler , Joseph II and Voltaire . On his re- turn to Italy , he introduced the cultiva- tion of the potato into Lombardy . In 1794 , he ...
... France , Germany , England and Holland , on which occasion he was treated with great respect by Hal- ler , Joseph II and Voltaire . On his re- turn to Italy , he introduced the cultiva- tion of the potato into Lombardy . In 1794 , he ...
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