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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... Italy , and Rome fell , in 410 , into the power of the Visigoths . Alaric , had he not been overtaken by death , when on the point of conquering Africa , would have founded a Germanic empire in Italy . His brother - in - law Athaulf ...
... Italy , and Rome fell , in 410 , into the power of the Visigoths . Alaric , had he not been overtaken by death , when on the point of conquering Africa , would have founded a Germanic empire in Italy . His brother - in - law Athaulf ...
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... Italy , in the States of the Church , cap ital of a delegation , formerly capital of the Patrimonio ; thirty - four miles north- west of Rome ; lon . 12 ° 6 E .; lat . 42 ° 25 N .; population , 12,600 . This city is bishop's see , and ...
... Italy , in the States of the Church , cap ital of a delegation , formerly capital of the Patrimonio ; thirty - four miles north- west of Rome ; lon . 12 ° 6 E .; lat . 42 ° 25 N .; population , 12,600 . This city is bishop's see , and ...
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... Italian mathematician , was born at Florence , in 1622. From the sixteenth year of his age , he pursued the study of geometry with such diligence and success , that the great Galilei gave him the advantage of his own instructions , and ...
... Italian mathematician , was born at Florence , in 1622. From the sixteenth year of his age , he pursued the study of geometry with such diligence and success , that the great Galilei gave him the advantage of his own instructions , and ...
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... Italy , about 1773 , to study music . In about three years , he returned to Manheim , the residence of his princely ... Italian opera in Paris ) Memoir * See Magendie's Report on Doctor Bennati's on the Diseases of the Uvula , read March ...
... Italy , about 1773 , to study music . In about three years , he returned to Manheim , the residence of his princely ... Italian opera in Paris ) Memoir * See Magendie's Report on Doctor Bennati's on the Diseases of the Uvula , read March ...
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... Italy , there are spaces where the shocks are much rarer and more feeble . Beyond these limits , again , all countries are liable to slight tremors at distant intervals of time , when some great crisis of subter- ranean movement ...
... Italy , there are spaces where the shocks are much rarer and more feeble . Beyond these limits , again , all countries are liable to slight tremors at distant intervals of time , when some great crisis of subter- ranean movement ...
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