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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... sent into the provinces . The grand vizier ( vizier azem ) stands high above these . He is the representative of the sultan , conducts the deliberations of the divan , and decides alone . He receives a seal at the time of his ...
... sent into the provinces . The grand vizier ( vizier azem ) stands high above these . He is the representative of the sultan , conducts the deliberations of the divan , and decides alone . He receives a seal at the time of his ...
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... sent on a mission to Spain , where he composed some verses in such pure and natural Spanish , that every body ascribed them to Lope de Vega . He also visited Rome and England , and died in 1648. Voiture was one of the first persons in ...
... sent on a mission to Spain , where he composed some verses in such pure and natural Spanish , that every body ascribed them to Lope de Vega . He also visited Rome and England , and died in 1648. Voiture was one of the first persons in ...
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... sent to Berlin , put his acquisitions into a lottery . By and discovered the ground upon which this , as well as by other fortunate specu- Frederic had declined the advances which lations ( he traded under the name of Du had been made ...
... sent to Berlin , put his acquisitions into a lottery . By and discovered the ground upon which this , as well as by other fortunate specu- Frederic had declined the advances which lations ( he traded under the name of Du had been made ...
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... sent him his dismission . Voltaire return ed to the king the chamberlain's key and the cross of the order which had been conferred on him , with some verses , in which he compared himself to a lover who sends back the portrait of his ...
... sent him his dismission . Voltaire return ed to the king the chamberlain's key and the cross of the order which had been conferred on him , with some verses , in which he compared himself to a lover who sends back the portrait of his ...
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... sent three of their members to welcome him , though , in similar cases , it was customary to send but one . The actors waited upon him in a body : " We have come , " said they , 66 to beseech you to inspire us with your odes . " " I ...
... sent three of their members to welcome him , though , in similar cases , it was customary to send but one . The actors waited upon him in a body : " We have come , " said they , 66 to beseech you to inspire us with your odes . " " I ...
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