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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... royal residence , and tried to render the regal power heredita- ry . His equally celebrated son , Reccared , became a convert , in 589 , to the Catholic faith ; upon which the divisions of the people ceased , and Goths and Spaniards ...
... royal residence , and tried to render the regal power heredita- ry . His equally celebrated son , Reccared , became a convert , in 589 , to the Catholic faith ; upon which the divisions of the people ceased , and Goths and Spaniards ...
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... royal com- manders , and their great numerical su- periority , he sustained a struggle for two years , at the end of which time , his suc- cessive losses , and the disastrous state of the revolutionary party in the country , left him ...
... royal com- manders , and their great numerical su- periority , he sustained a struggle for two years , at the end of which time , his suc- cessive losses , and the disastrous state of the revolutionary party in the country , left him ...
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... royal academy of sciences of Paris , which honor induced him to finish three books of his Divination of Aristeus , and address them to the king of France ( Divinatio in Aristęum , 1701 ) . He died in 1703 , in the eighty - first or ...
... royal academy of sciences of Paris , which honor induced him to finish three books of his Divination of Aristeus , and address them to the king of France ( Divinatio in Aristęum , 1701 ) . He died in 1703 , in the eighty - first or ...
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... royal family was present , and the piece was received with unbound- ed applause . The French academy sent him their gratulations on this occasion , and placed his bust by the side of Cor- neille . At the sixth representation , he came ...
... royal family was present , and the piece was received with unbound- ed applause . The French academy sent him their gratulations on this occasion , and placed his bust by the side of Cor- neille . At the sixth representation , he came ...
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... royal French acad- emy of inscriptions and belles - lettres , was born at Paris , in 1771 , and , after having studied there , made a tour , at the period of the revolution , in the Nether- lands and Great Britain , and prosecuted his ...
... royal French acad- emy of inscriptions and belles - lettres , was born at Paris , in 1771 , and , after having studied there , made a tour , at the period of the revolution , in the Nether- lands and Great Britain , and prosecuted his ...
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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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