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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... became manifest as soon as they came in contact with the Franks on the Loire , when the Catholic Clovis ( q . v . ) , on pretence that it was unjust to let the heretic Visigoths possess the fairest portion of Gaul , attacked the ...
... became manifest as soon as they came in contact with the Franks on the Loire , when the Catholic Clovis ( q . v . ) , on pretence that it was unjust to let the heretic Visigoths possess the fairest portion of Gaul , attacked the ...
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... became the terror of the Span- ish troops , maintaining an incessant and destructive guerilla war . Notwithstand- ing the great efforts of the royal com- manders , and their great numerical su- periority , he sustained a struggle for ...
... became the terror of the Span- ish troops , maintaining an incessant and destructive guerilla war . Notwithstand- ing the great efforts of the royal com- manders , and their great numerical su- periority , he sustained a struggle for ...
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... its vicinity . From that time to the year 79 , slight shocks were frequent ; and in the month of August of that year , they became more numerous and violent , tiii hey ended at length in an eruption . The elder 2 VOLCANOES . 17.
... its vicinity . From that time to the year 79 , slight shocks were frequent ; and in the month of August of that year , they became more numerous and violent , tiii hey ended at length in an eruption . The elder 2 VOLCANOES . 17.
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... became master of a small patri- monial estate , than , he converted it into money , and embarked for the Levant , travelled through several parts of Egypt and Syria , and , after a residence for some time in a Maronite convent on mount ...
... became master of a small patri- monial estate , than , he converted it into money , and embarked for the Levant , travelled through several parts of Egypt and Syria , and , after a residence for some time in a Maronite convent on mount ...
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... became intimate with the elder Caumartin , who awakened in him a great- admiration of Henry IV , and of Sully , and gave him a lively idea of the court of Louis XIV . Hence originated the Henriade and the Sičcle de Louis XIV In 1716 ...
... became intimate with the elder Caumartin , who awakened in him a great- admiration of Henry IV , and of Sully , and gave him a lively idea of the court of Louis XIV . Hence originated the Henriade and the Sičcle de Louis XIV In 1716 ...
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