Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; 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 Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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... German Conversations-Lexicon Francis Lieber. his mutilated body dragged with a hook and thrown into the Tiber , A. D. 69 , after a reign of one year , except twelve days . VITERBO ( anciently Volturna ) ; a town of Italy , in the States ...
... German Conversations-Lexicon Francis Lieber. his mutilated body dragged with a hook and thrown into the Tiber , A. D. 69 , after a reign of one year , except twelve days . VITERBO ( anciently Volturna ) ; a town of Italy , in the States ...
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... German Conversations-Lexicon Francis Lieber. they are the only agents , with which we are acquainted , capable of fulfilling all the requisites . How or where these bodies exist , at what depths , in what quantity , and how accessible to ...
... German Conversations-Lexicon Francis Lieber. they are the only agents , with which we are acquainted , capable of fulfilling all the requisites . How or where these bodies exist , at what depths , in what quantity , and how accessible to ...
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... German Conversations-Lexicon Francis Lieber. him at certain hours , and iad a table and equipage at his command . He spent every day two hours with the king , and revised his literary productions , when , as he him- self said , he never ...
... German Conversations-Lexicon Francis Lieber. him at certain hours , and iad a table and equipage at his command . He spent every day two hours with the king , and revised his literary productions , when , as he him- self said , he never ...
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... German Conversations-Lexicon Francis Lieber. however , Voltaire was not distinguished in comedy The Henriade has many striking passages , but wants true epic characters , and is faulty in its plan . Among his historical works , the ...
... German Conversations-Lexicon Francis Lieber. however , Voltaire was not distinguished in comedy The Henriade has many striking passages , but wants true epic characters , and is faulty in its plan . Among his historical works , the ...
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... German Conversations-Lexicon Francis Lieber. south , nearly parallel with the Rhine , and forming a continuation of the Jura moun- tains , which separate France from Swit- zerland . Beginning in the vicinity of Bel- fort , in the ancient ...
... German Conversations-Lexicon Francis Lieber. south , nearly parallel with the Rhine , and forming a continuation of the Jura moun- tains , which separate France from Swit- zerland . Beginning in the vicinity of Bel- fort , in the ancient ...
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