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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... 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 ( Ataulphus ) ...
... 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 ( Ataulphus ) ...
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... Rome . The greatest part of his youth was spent at Capreę , where he labored to gratify the vicious propensities of Ti- berius . He passed through all the offices of the state , and gained the soldiery by donations and liberal promises ...
... Rome . The greatest part of his youth was spent at Capreę , where he labored to gratify the vicious propensities of Ti- berius . He passed through all the offices of the state , and gained the soldiery by donations and liberal promises ...
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... Rome ; lon . 12 ° 6 E .; lat . 42 ° 25 N .; population , 12,600 . This city is bishop's see , and lies in a beautiful and fertile valley the streets , for the greater part , are broad and well paved , the houses good , but thinly ...
... Rome ; lon . 12 ° 6 E .; lat . 42 ° 25 N .; population , 12,600 . This city is bishop's see , and lies in a beautiful and fertile valley the streets , for the greater part , are broad and well paved , the houses good , but thinly ...
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... Rome and England , and died in 1648. Voiture was one of the first persons in France dis- tinguished by the title of bel esprit . He wrote verses in French , Spanish and Ital- ian . The former are occasionally easy and sprightly , but ...
... Rome and England , and died in 1648. Voiture was one of the first persons in France dis- tinguished by the title of bel esprit . He wrote verses in French , Spanish and Ital- ian . The former are occasionally easy and sprightly , but ...
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... Rome . Here a society of amateurs , at the head of whom was Ercole Bonajuti , had been formed for the purpose of pro ... Rome . VOLSCI ; an Ausonian tribe , which re- sided , before the foundation of Rome , in the ancient Latium ( now ...
... Rome . Here a society of amateurs , at the head of whom was Ercole Bonajuti , had been formed for the purpose of pro ... Rome . VOLSCI ; an Ausonian tribe , which re- sided , before the foundation of Rome , in the ancient Latium ( now ...
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