Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations - Lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1833 |
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... considered as a primary disease . They often enable the physician to draw conclusions respecting the true character of the disease . The entire loss of voice originates from cramp , weakness or paralysis . If it is caused by paralysis ...
... considered as a primary disease . They often enable the physician to draw conclusions respecting the true character of the disease . The entire loss of voice originates from cramp , weakness or paralysis . If it is caused by paralysis ...
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... considered as a theatre of earthquakes and volcanoes . On the north lies the island of Jamaica , which , with a tract of the contiguous sea , has often experienced tremendous shocks ; and these are frequent along a line ex- tending from ...
... considered as a theatre of earthquakes and volcanoes . On the north lies the island of Jamaica , which , with a tract of the contiguous sea , has often experienced tremendous shocks ; and these are frequent along a line ex- tending from ...
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... considered in the light of upper do- mestics of the great , undertook to secure for them an independent station . His in- fluence was felt throughout Europe ; and never did a man , by the force of his writ- ings , obtain such power over ...
... considered in the light of upper do- mestics of the great , undertook to secure for them an independent station . His in- fluence was felt throughout Europe ; and never did a man , by the force of his writ- ings , obtain such power over ...
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... considered permission to return to France , where he desirable . Voltaire was 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 ...
... considered permission to return to France , where he desirable . Voltaire was 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 ...
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... considered his dramas as his chief productions ; and , in truth , dramatic works were his last labors . He wrote his Tancrède in the sixty - sixth year of his age . The calls upon him were so constant that he felt himself oppressed by ...
... considered his dramas as his chief productions ; and , in truth , dramatic works were his last labors . He wrote his Tancrède in the sixty - sixth year of his age . The calls upon him were so constant that he felt himself oppressed by ...
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