Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time, Volume 13Francis Lieber Desilver, Thomas, 1836 |
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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 Aristæum , 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 Aristæum , 1701 ) . He died in 1703 , in the eighty - first or ...
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... royal society of London , on ac- count of his paper upon the condenser ; and , in 1801 , his electric apparatus at- tracted so much notice in France that the first consul made him a present of 6000 francs . He was subsequently deputy ...
... royal society of London , on ac- count of his paper upon the condenser ; and , in 1801 , his electric apparatus at- tracted so much notice in France that the first consul made him a present of 6000 francs . He was subsequently deputy ...
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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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