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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... latter case , it is either too strong or too weak , too deep ( vox clangosa , if it is at the same time too strong , and raucitas gravis , if it is at the same time too weak ) , or too high ( oxyphonia , which again is di- vided into ...
... latter case , it is either too strong or too weak , too deep ( vox clangosa , if it is at the same time too strong , and raucitas gravis , if it is at the same time too weak ) , or too high ( oxyphonia , which again is di- vided into ...
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... latter sent to the principal clergyman of St. Sulpice , to induce him to beg Voltaire to submit to the ceremony which Catholic Christians undergo on leaving the world . The circumstances of the case have been related differently ; but ...
... latter sent to the principal clergyman of St. Sulpice , to induce him to beg Voltaire to submit to the ceremony which Catholic Christians undergo on leaving the world . The circumstances of the case have been related differently ; but ...
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... latter has since been published . Dupont has lately pub- lished an edition of Voltaire's works , in 70 volumes . A tolerably complete , but per- haps not entirely impartial review of the numerous literary contests of Voltaire , is given ...
... latter has since been published . Dupont has lately pub- lished an edition of Voltaire's works , in 70 volumes . A tolerably complete , but per- haps not entirely impartial review of the numerous literary contests of Voltaire , is given ...
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... latter , however , does by no means always indicate nobility . There are a few cases , also , in Germany , in which von precedes the name of a commoner . The origin of this signification of von was , probably , that the early noblemen ...
... latter , however , does by no means always indicate nobility . There are a few cases , also , in Germany , in which von precedes the name of a commoner . The origin of this signification of von was , probably , that the early noblemen ...
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... latter capital he acquired great distinction . He remained in Italy fourteen years , when he was sent for by Louis XIII , to work in his palaces , and furnished some of the apartments of the Louvre , the palace of Luxembourg , and the ...
... latter capital he acquired great distinction . He remained in Italy fourteen years , when he was sent for by Louis XIII , to work in his palaces , and furnished some of the apartments of the Louvre , the palace of Luxembourg , and the ...
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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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