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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... remained , as to make this disproportionate to the preceding parts . Under these circumstances , it became indispensable to publish a thirteenth volume ; and we have taken the opportunity thus afforded to furnish a number of supple ...
... remained , as to make this disproportionate to the preceding parts . Under these circumstances , it became indispensable to publish a thirteenth volume ; and we have taken the opportunity thus afforded to furnish a number of supple ...
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... remained no longer the first class in the state : the old mode of choosing the king , which had thrown the election into their hands , was altered in favor of the bishops ; and under weak kings , who often attained the crown by ...
... remained no longer the first class in the state : the old mode of choosing the king , which had thrown the election into their hands , was altered in favor of the bishops ; and under weak kings , who often attained the crown by ...
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... remained , for the rest of his life , as a teacher of the belles - lettres . He died in 1541. His works were printed at Basle in 1555 , in 2 vols . , folio ; but this collection does not include his Commentary on St. Augustine , which ...
... remained , for the rest of his life , as a teacher of the belles - lettres . He died in 1541. His works were printed at Basle in 1555 , in 2 vols . , folio ; but this collection does not include his Commentary on St. Augustine , which ...
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... remained in Darmstadt until his death , in 1814. He invented a new instrument , called orchestrion , in which the tone was determined in quite a new way , by the increase and diminution of the wind ; and the sound was increased by a ...
... remained in Darmstadt until his death , in 1814. He invented a new instrument , called orchestrion , in which the tone was determined in quite a new way , by the increase and diminution of the wind ; and the sound was increased by a ...
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... remained , for the rest of his life , as a teacher of the belles - lettres . He died in 1541. His works were printed at Basle in 1555 , in 2 vols . , folio ; but this collection does not include his Commentary on St. Augustine , which ...
... remained , for the rest of his life , as a teacher of the belles - lettres . He died in 1541. His works were printed at Basle in 1555 , in 2 vols . , folio ; but this collection does not include his Commentary on St. Augustine , which ...
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