Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography. A New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber Bazin and Ellsworth, 1859 |
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... France and in Spain the kingdom of the Visigoths . The unnatural extension of this kingdom to the north of the Pyr- enees , where even the capital , and the residence of the king , Toulouse , was sit- uated , while the Suevi still ...
... France and in Spain the kingdom of the Visigoths . The unnatural extension of this kingdom to the north of the Pyr- enees , where even the capital , and the residence of the king , Toulouse , was sit- uated , while the Suevi still ...
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... France dis- tinguished by the title of bel esprit . He wrote verses in French , Spanish and Ital- ian . The former are occasionally easy and sprightly , but have much strained wit and affected sentiment . His letters place him high in ...
... France dis- tinguished by the title of bel esprit . He wrote verses in French , Spanish and Ital- ian . The former are occasionally easy and sprightly , but have much strained wit and affected sentiment . His letters place him high in ...
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... France and Germany , particularly during the Lisbon earthquake . We shall now give some account of a few of the principal volcanic vents , dis- persed through the great regions before described , and consider the composition and ...
... France and Germany , particularly during the Lisbon earthquake . We shall now give some account of a few of the principal volcanic vents , dis- persed through the great regions before described , and consider the composition and ...
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... France ( those of Vive- rais ) , the uppermost portion , often forty feet or more in thickness , is an amor- phous mass passing downwards into lava , irregularly prismatic ; and under this here is a foundation of regular and ver- tical ...
... France ( those of Vive- rais ) , the uppermost portion , often forty feet or more in thickness , is an amor- phous mass passing downwards into lava , irregularly prismatic ; and under this here is a foundation of regular and ver- tical ...
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... France , a cele- brated French writer , was born at Craon , in Brittany , in 1755. Inspired , at an early age , with a desire to visit foreign countries in search of knowledge , he no sooner became master of a small patri- monial estate ...
... France , a cele- brated French writer , was born at Craon , in Brittany , in 1755. Inspired , at an early age , with a desire to visit foreign countries in search of knowledge , he no sooner became master of a small patri- monial estate ...
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