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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... received , in a variety of ways , the most important aid . They are also indebted for valuable contributions , or favors of other kinds , to numerous other gentlemen , among whom they may be permitted to mention Mr. Duponceau , of ...
... received , in a variety of ways , the most important aid . They are also indebted for valuable contributions , or favors of other kinds , to numerous other gentlemen , among whom they may be permitted to mention Mr. Duponceau , of ...
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... received his first instruction in the Jesuits ' college of Louis XIV . , under Porée and Le Jay . Here he displayed talents which warrant- ed the highest expectations . In his third year he was able to repeat the fables of La Fontaine ...
... received his first instruction in the Jesuits ' college of Louis XIV . , under Porée and Le Jay . Here he displayed talents which warrant- ed the highest expectations . In his third year he was able to repeat the fables of La Fontaine ...
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... received 1740 , an alliance with him was considered permission to return to France , where he desirable . Voltaire was sent to Berlin , put his acquisitions into a lottery . By and discovered the ground upon which this , as well as by ...
... received 1740 , an alliance with him was considered permission to return to France , where he desirable . Voltaire was sent to Berlin , put his acquisitions into a lottery . By and discovered the ground upon which this , as well as by ...
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... received with unbound- ed applause . The French academy sent him their gratulations on this occasion , and placed ... receiving the sacrament , in the eighty- fifth year of his age , May 30 , 1778. The archbishop of Paris is said to have ...
... received with unbound- ed applause . The French academy sent him their gratulations on this occasion , and placed ... receiving the sacrament , in the eighty- fifth year of his age , May 30 , 1778. The archbishop of Paris is said to have ...
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... received deacon's or- ders , and , on leaving college , engaged in a curacy at Stockport , in Cheshire , and subsequently at another near Liverpool . The dissatisfaction which he entertained at the doctrines and liturgy of the church of ...
... received deacon's or- ders , and , on leaving college , engaged in a curacy at Stockport , in Cheshire , and subsequently at another near Liverpool . The dissatisfaction which he entertained at the doctrines and liturgy of the church of ...
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