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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... church had obtained . The grandees of the kingdom , the secular public ministers and officers of the court ( called viri illus- tres officii palatini ) , who formed a kind of nobility , and as the constitutional coun- sellors of the ...
... church had obtained . The grandees of the kingdom , the secular public ministers and officers of the court ( called viri illus- tres officii palatini ) , who formed a kind of nobility , and as the constitutional coun- sellors of the ...
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... churches a uniform mode of worship , long survived the downfall of the kingdom . This offi- cium Gothicum , as it was termed , which contained many rites and forms that had been used in the Spanish church from the earliest period of ...
... churches a uniform mode of worship , long survived the downfall of the kingdom . This offi- cium Gothicum , as it was termed , which contained many rites and forms that had been used in the Spanish church from the earliest period of ...
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... Church , cap ital of a delegation , formerly capital of the Patrimonio ; thirty - four miles north- west of Rome ... churches , convents and hospitals is not less than sixty - nine . Four popes lie interred in the cathedral . Not far ...
... Church , cap ital of a delegation , formerly capital of the Patrimonio ; thirty - four miles north- west of Rome ... churches , convents and hospitals is not less than sixty - nine . Four popes lie interred in the cathedral . Not far ...
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... church of the Apostles in Rome . VOLSCI ; an Ausonian tribe , which re- sided , before the foundation of Rome , in the ancient Latium ( now Campagna di Roma ) . They had a republican government . Livy calls them the eternal enemies of ...
... church of the Apostles in Rome . VOLSCI ; an Ausonian tribe , which re- sided , before the foundation of Rome , in the ancient Latium ( now Campagna di Roma ) . They had a republican government . Livy calls them the eternal enemies of ...
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... church , with the inscription . Deo erexit Voltaire . A decided enemy of tyr- anny and oppression , he afforded aid and protection to many persecuted persons ; among others , to the family of Jean Calas , who had fallen a victim to ...
... church , with the inscription . Deo erexit Voltaire . A decided enemy of tyr- anny and oppression , he afforded aid and protection to many persecuted persons ; among others , to the family of Jean Calas , who had fallen a victim to ...
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