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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... gave rise to a strict separa- tion between the Goths and Romans , and caused the Catholic clergy to become more firmly attached to each other and to Rome . Notwithstanding this , and not- withstanding the convulsions produced by ...
... gave rise to a strict separa- tion between the Goths and Romans , and caused the Catholic clergy to become more firmly attached to each other and to Rome . Notwithstanding this , and not- withstanding the convulsions produced by ...
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... gave rise to the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal . The traces of the pub- lic institutions of the Visigoths were preserved longest in the laws , as the Christians , on leaving the mountains , brought with them 6 VISIGOTHS .
... gave rise to the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal . The traces of the pub- lic institutions of the Visigoths were preserved longest in the laws , as the Christians , on leaving the mountains , brought with them 6 VISIGOTHS .
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... gave him the advantage of his own instructions , and treated him as a son . After Galilei's death , he undertook the restoration of the five books of Aris- tęus , a celebrated Grecian mathematician , entitled De Locis solidis , which ...
... gave him the advantage of his own instructions , and treated him as a son . After Galilei's death , he undertook the restoration of the five books of Aris- tęus , a celebrated Grecian mathematician , entitled De Locis solidis , which ...
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... gave him the honor of having ren- dered the productions of that great mas- ter more generally known , and of having awakened a purer taste among engravers . Accuracy of execution , and attention to the pictorial effect , so far as it ...
... gave him the honor of having ren- dered the productions of that great mas- ter more generally known , and of having awakened a purer taste among engravers . Accuracy of execution , and attention to the pictorial effect , so far as it ...
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... gave such license to his wit , wards Frederic the Great , who had a that it is said Pope's mother was some- great fondness for French literature . times driven away , by his conversation , When Frederic ascended the throne , in from her ...
... gave such license to his wit , wards Frederic the Great , who had a that it is said Pope's mother was some- great fondness for French literature . times driven away , by his conversation , When Frederic ascended the throne , in from her ...
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