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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... force - the vapor— still remains to be accounted for . Others have imagined a great depōt of electric matter , pent up in certain submarine and subterranean caverns , and occasionally sallying forth to fuse and blow up the surrounding ...
... force - the vapor— still remains to be accounted for . Others have imagined a great depōt of electric matter , pent up in certain submarine and subterranean caverns , and occasionally sallying forth to fuse and blow up the surrounding ...
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... force of his writ- ings , obtain such power over his nation . Voltaire was born at Chatenay , near Par- is , feb . 20 , 1694. His father , Francis Arouet , notary of the Chātelet , and finally treasurer of the chamber of accounts ...
... force of his writ- ings , obtain such power over his nation . Voltaire was born at Chatenay , near Par- is , feb . 20 , 1694. His father , Francis Arouet , notary of the Chātelet , and finally treasurer of the chamber of accounts ...
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... force against him , made him Troyes . By a decree of the national as- anxious ; but nothing further was done to sembly ( 1791 ) , his remains were placed in molest him . The French academy sent the Pantheon , in Paris , near those of ...
... force against him , made him Troyes . By a decree of the national as- anxious ; but nothing further was done to sembly ( 1791 ) , his remains were placed in molest him . The French academy sent the Pantheon , in Paris , near those of ...
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... force ; the irregularities which diversify its surface are the effects of volcanic eruptions ; and the transported soils have been formed by the disintegra- nons of the higher grounds . The Nep- tunists , on the other hand , maintain ...
... force ; the irregularities which diversify its surface are the effects of volcanic eruptions ; and the transported soils have been formed by the disintegra- nons of the higher grounds . The Nep- tunists , on the other hand , maintain ...
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... forces has been estimated at 180,000 ; and if this number is over- rated , it is certain that the Austrian force was not half as great . From July 2 , the French attempted , at several points on the islands , to establish a secure ...
... forces has been estimated at 180,000 ; and if this number is over- rated , it is certain that the Austrian force was not half as great . From July 2 , the French attempted , at several points on the islands , to establish a secure ...
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