Encyclopędia 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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... ministers and officers of the court ( called viri illus- tres officii palatıni ) , who formed a kind of nobility , and as the constitutional coun- sellors of the king , usurped the rights of popular representatives , remained no longer ...
... ministers and officers of the court ( called viri illus- tres officii palatıni ) , who formed a kind of nobility , and as the constitutional coun- sellors of the king , usurped the rights of popular representatives , remained no longer ...
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... minister Primus was sent to destroy the imperial glutton . Vitellius concealed himself un- der the bed of the porter of his palace ; but he was discovered , and dragged na- ked through the streets , with his hands tied behind his back ...
... minister Primus was sent to destroy the imperial glutton . Vitellius concealed himself un- der the bed of the porter of his palace ; but he was discovered , and dragged na- ked through the streets , with his hands tied behind his back ...
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... minister Primus was sent to destroy the imperial glutton . Vitellius concealed himself un- der the bed of the porter of his palace ; but he was discovered , and dragged na- ked through the streets , with his hands tied behind his back ...
... minister Primus was sent to destroy the imperial glutton . Vitellius concealed himself un- der the bed of the porter of his palace ; but he was discovered , and dragged na- ked through the streets , with his hands tied behind his back ...
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... minister to Holland , to take the young Voltaire with him as a page . He consented ; but Voltaire fell in love with the daughter of madame Noyer , a refu- gee in Holland , and was therefore sent back to his family . His father would re ...
... minister to Holland , to take the young Voltaire with him as a page . He consented ; but Voltaire fell in love with the daughter of madame Noyer , a refu- gee in Holland , and was therefore sent back to his family . His father would re ...
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... his hand . and , by the advice of the minister , cardi- Voltaire occupied an apartment under nal Fleury , he withdrew the piece ; yet it that of the king , with permission to visit than one deity of the name of Vulcan . One 24 VOLTAIRE .
... his hand . and , by the advice of the minister , cardi- Voltaire occupied an apartment under nal Fleury , he withdrew the piece ; yet it that of the king , with permission to visit than one deity of the name of Vulcan . One 24 VOLTAIRE .
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