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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... principal , continues burning without in- termission , and is so high , that it may be distinguished at the distance of 150 miles . A year never passes in this province with- out some slight shocks of earthquakes , and about once in a ...
... principal , continues burning without in- termission , and is so high , that it may be distinguished at the distance of 150 miles . A year never passes in this province with- out some slight shocks of earthquakes , and about once in a ...
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... principal volcanic vents , dis- persed through the great regions before described , and consider the composition and arrangement of their lavas and eject- ed matter . From the first colonization of Southern Italy by the Greeks , Vesu ...
... principal volcanic vents , dis- persed through the great regions before described , and consider the composition and arrangement of their lavas and eject- ed matter . From the first colonization of Southern Italy by the Greeks , Vesu ...
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... principal city was Antium , the ru- ins of which are to be seen in the neigh- borhood of cape Angio . Corioli , from which Coriolanus derived his surname , was another city of theirs . After having sove times endangered the Roman state ...
... principal city was Antium , the ru- ins of which are to be seen in the neigh- borhood of cape Angio . Corioli , from which Coriolanus derived his surname , was another city of theirs . After having sove times endangered the Roman state ...
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... principal people , he thought it best to leave the place . He therefore purchased the estate of Ferney , in the Pays de Gex , where he resided the rest of his life , with his niece , madame Denis . He drew manufacturers , and other ...
... principal people , he thought it best to leave the place . He therefore purchased the estate of Ferney , in the Pays de Gex , where he resided the rest of his life , with his niece , madame Denis . He drew manufacturers , and other ...
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... 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 it is certain that ...
... 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 it is certain that ...
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