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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... received , in a variety of ways , the most important aid . They are also indebted for valuable contributions , or favors of other kinds , to numerous other gentlemen , among whom they may be permitted to mention Mr. Duponceau , of ...
... received , in a variety of ways , the most important aid . They are also indebted for valuable contributions , or favors of other kinds , to numerous other gentlemen , among whom they may be permitted to mention Mr. Duponceau , of ...
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... received , in a variety of ways , the most important aid . They are also indebted for valuable contributions , or favors of other kinds , to numerous other gentlemen , among whom they may be permitted to mention Mr. Duponceau , of ...
... received , in a variety of ways , the most important aid . They are also indebted for valuable contributions , or favors of other kinds , to numerous other gentlemen , among whom they may be permitted to mention Mr. Duponceau , of ...
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... received the Copleian medal from the royal society of London , on ac- count of his paper upon the condenser ; and , in 1801 , his electric apparatus at- tracted so much notice in France that the first consul made him a present of 6000 ...
... received the Copleian medal from the royal society of London , on ac- count of his paper upon the condenser ; and , in 1801 , his electric apparatus at- tracted so much notice in France that the first consul made him a present of 6000 ...
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... received 1740 , an alliance with him was considered permission to return to France , where he desirable . Voltaire was sent to Berlin , put his acquisitions into a lottery . By and discovered the ground upon which this , as well as by ...
... received 1740 , an alliance with him was considered permission to return to France , where he desirable . Voltaire was sent to Berlin , put his acquisitions into a lottery . By and discovered the ground upon which this , as well as by ...
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... received with unbound- ed applause . The French academy sent him their gratulations on this occasion , and placed ... receiving the sacrament , in the eighty- fifth year of his age , May 30 , 1778. The archbishop of Paris is said to have ...
... received with unbound- ed applause . The French academy sent him their gratulations on this occasion , and placed ... receiving the sacrament , in the eighty- fifth year of his age , May 30 , 1778. The archbishop of Paris is said to have ...
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