Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; 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 Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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... father kicked him down from Olympus , when he attempted to deliver his mother , who had been fas- tened by a golden chain for her insolence . He was nine days in passing from heaven upon earth , and fell in the island of Lem- He broke ...
... father kicked him down from Olympus , when he attempted to deliver his mother , who had been fas- tened by a golden chain for her insolence . He was nine days in passing from heaven upon earth , and fell in the island of Lem- He broke ...
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... father of Apollo by Minerva . The second he mentions as son of the Nile , and called Phthas by the Egyptians . The third was son of Jupiter and Juno , and fixed his residence in Lemnos ; and the fourth , who built his forges in the ...
... father of Apollo by Minerva . The second he mentions as son of the Nile , and called Phthas by the Egyptians . The third was son of Jupiter and Juno , and fixed his residence in Lemnos ; and the fourth , who built his forges in the ...
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... father had been murdered , in 1803 , by a Persian . Sehud was now prince of the Wahabees . Their high- priest was Hussein the Blind , the eldest son of Sheik Mohammed . The misfor- tunes which they suffered were soon re- paired . In ...
... father had been murdered , in 1803 , by a Persian . Sehud was now prince of the Wahabees . Their high- priest was Hussein the Blind , the eldest son of Sheik Mohammed . The misfor- tunes which they suffered were soon re- paired . In ...
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... father , the pacha of Cairo , who had been ordered to take part against n..n , and with whom he found a favorable reception . Thus the quarrels and jealousies of the Turkish pachas , and of the Persian khans , greatly favored the ...
... father , the pacha of Cairo , who had been ordered to take part against n..n , and with whom he found a favorable reception . Thus the quarrels and jealousies of the Turkish pachas , and of the Persian khans , greatly favored the ...
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... father diea auring his infancy , leaving him an ample fortune . He was educated at Eton , whence he was removed to King's college , Cambridge He was chosen member of parliament in his sixteenth or seventeenth year , and evinced himself ...
... father diea auring his infancy , leaving him an ample fortune . He was educated at Eton , whence he was removed to King's college , Cambridge He was chosen member of parliament in his sixteenth or seventeenth year , and evinced himself ...
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