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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... appointed captain - general in the province of Vera Cruz - a very im- portant post , as the whole communication with Europe was through the ports of that province . Here Vittoria distinguish- ed himself by his activity and energy , and ...
... appointed captain - general in the province of Vera Cruz - a very im- portant post , as the whole communication with Europe was through the ports of that province . Here Vittoria distinguish- ed himself by his activity and energy , and ...
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... appointed chapel- master to the grand duke of Hesse - Darm- stadt , and 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 ...
... appointed chapel- master to the grand duke of Hesse - Darm- stadt , and 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 ...
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... appointed professor of his- tory at the normal school ; and the course of lectures on the philosophy of history ... appoint- ment from taking place . In the senate , he coöperated with Lanjuinais , Cabanis , Destutt de Tracy , Collaud ...
... appointed professor of his- tory at the normal school ; and the course of lectures on the philosophy of history ... appoint- ment from taking place . In the senate , he coöperated with Lanjuinais , Cabanis , Destutt de Tracy , Collaud ...
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... appointed rector at Otten- dorf . In 1781 , after the publication of several treatises , he produced his German Odyssey , a work which , whatever may be the opinion of some respecting it , has rendered this grand poem national with the ...
... appointed rector at Otten- dorf . In 1781 , after the publication of several treatises , he produced his German Odyssey , a work which , whatever may be the opinion of some respecting it , has rendered this grand poem national with the ...
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... appointed to prepare a proper text ; but , the pope not liking it , it was abandoned . Pius IV , Pius V and Sixtus V then took the greatest pains to form a correct Vulgate . The latter pub- lished his edition in 1590 , with anathemas ...
... appointed to prepare a proper text ; but , the pope not liking it , it was abandoned . Pius IV , Pius V and Sixtus V then took the greatest pains to form a correct Vulgate . The latter pub- lished his edition in 1590 , with anathemas ...
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