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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... father was a considerable land - holder , in 1790 , and had just finished his studies for the bar , in the capital , when the revo- lution broke out ( 1810 ) . He immediately espoused the cause of his native land against the Spaniards ...
... father was a considerable land - holder , in 1790 , and had just finished his studies for the bar , in the capital , when the revo- lution broke out ( 1810 ) . He immediately espoused the cause of his native land against the Spaniards ...
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... father , Francis Arouet , notary of the Chātelet , and finally treasurer of the chamber of accounts , possessed considerable property , so that he was enabled to give his son an excel- lent education . Voltaire received his first ...
... father , Francis Arouet , notary of the Chātelet , and finally treasurer of the chamber of accounts , possessed considerable property , so that he was enabled to give his son an excel- lent education . Voltaire received his first ...
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... father sired , as the reward of his services , some and brother , his income amounted to marks of favor from the court , to facilitate nearly 130,000 livres , which he employed his admission to the academy , which had in a praiseworthy ...
... father sired , as the reward of his services , some and brother , his income amounted to marks of favor from the court , to facilitate nearly 130,000 livres , which he employed his admission to the academy , which had in a praiseworthy ...
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... father , who was also an artist . He accompanied the French embassy at Constantinople , and drew the grand seignior , from memory , after an audience in the train of the am- bassador . He then visited Venice and Rome , at which latter ...
... father , who was also an artist . He accompanied the French embassy at Constantinople , and drew the grand seignior , from memory , after an audience in the train of the am- bassador . He then visited Venice and Rome , at which latter ...
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... father kicked him down from Olympus , when he attempted to deliver his mother , who had been fas- tened by a golden chain for her insolence . He was nine days in passing from heaven upon earth , and fell in the island of Lem- He broke ...
... father kicked him down from Olympus , when he attempted to deliver his mother , who had been fas- tened by a golden chain for her insolence . He was nine days in passing from heaven upon earth , and fell in the island of Lem- He broke ...
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| Title | 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 13 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, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford |
| Editor | Francis Lieber |
| Contributors | Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake |
| Publisher | Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2010 |
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