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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... head of the state , and to procure exemption from all public burdens . This prevailing influence was especially visible in the ecclesiastical councils , which , in previous times , had discussed merely matters of doctrine or church ...
... head of the state , and to procure exemption from all public burdens . This prevailing influence was especially visible in the ecclesiastical councils , which , in previous times , had discussed merely matters of doctrine or church ...
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... head of the Roman legions in Ger- many when Otho was proclaimed empe- ror , and was likewise invested with the purple by his soldiers . He accepted the office , and instantly marched against Otho . After losing three battles , he was ...
... head of the Roman legions in Ger- many when Otho was proclaimed empe- ror , and was likewise invested with the purple by his soldiers . He accepted the office , and instantly marched against Otho . After losing three battles , he was ...
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... head of a body of repub- lican troops , attracted by his old reputa- tion . He now joined Iturbide ; but , as his wishes were set on the establishment of a liberal government , and not on a change of masters , he was again forced to ...
... head of a body of repub- lican troops , attracted by his old reputa- tion . He now joined Iturbide ; but , as his wishes were set on the establishment of a liberal government , and not on a change of masters , he was again forced to ...
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... head , and its lower , the trunk of the pine , which characterizes the Italian landscape . This black cloud was pierced , occasionally , by flashes of fire as vivid as lightning , succeeded by darkness more profound than night . Ashes ...
... head , and its lower , the trunk of the pine , which characterizes the Italian landscape . This black cloud was pierced , occasionally , by flashes of fire as vivid as lightning , succeeded by darkness more profound than night . Ashes ...
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... head of whom was Ercole Bonajuti , had been formed for the purpose of pro- curing engravings of Raphael's works in the Vatican . The drawings of the Spanish painter La Veja , in eighty sheets , which had been prepared by a labor of ...
... head of whom was Ercole Bonajuti , had been formed for the purpose of pro- curing engravings of Raphael's works in the Vatican . The drawings of the Spanish painter La Veja , in eighty sheets , which had been prepared by a labor of ...
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