The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Volume 13Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 - Biography |
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... emperor afterwards granted him letters of nobility . Pope Innocent XIII . seems also to have been delighted with his conversion , although his embarrassed circumstances appear to have been the chief cause of it . He died in the month of ...
... emperor afterwards granted him letters of nobility . Pope Innocent XIII . seems also to have been delighted with his conversion , although his embarrassed circumstances appear to have been the chief cause of it . He died in the month of ...
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... emperor Constantine the Great . Containing the space of about 318 years . With so much of the Jewish and Roman History as is necessary and convenient to illustrate the work . To 1 Moreri . which is added , a large chronological table of ...
... emperor Constantine the Great . Containing the space of about 318 years . With so much of the Jewish and Roman History as is necessary and convenient to illustrate the work . To 1 Moreri . which is added , a large chronological table of ...
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... emperor's command , was adjourned to Ratisbon ; where he dissented again from Pflug and Gropper , with reference to ... emperor Maximilian II . with whom , as well as with his son , afterwards the emperor Ro- dolphus II . he was in great ...
... emperor's command , was adjourned to Ratisbon ; where he dissented again from Pflug and Gropper , with reference to ... emperor Maximilian II . with whom , as well as with his son , afterwards the emperor Ro- dolphus II . he was in great ...
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... emperor her father : a story which the elegant pen of Addison has copied and embellished from an old German chronicle , and inserted in the third volume of the Spectator . This happy lover ( supposing the story to be true ) seems to ...
... emperor her father : a story which the elegant pen of Addison has copied and embellished from an old German chronicle , and inserted in the third volume of the Spectator . This happy lover ( supposing the story to be true ) seems to ...
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... emperor Charles V. whom he followed into Africa in 1544. Being appointed general of horse under Philip II . he signalized himself at the battle of St. Quentin- in 1557 , and that of Gravelines in 1558. But , after the departure of ...
... emperor Charles V. whom he followed into Africa in 1544. Being appointed general of horse under Philip II . he signalized himself at the battle of St. Quentin- in 1557 , and that of Gravelines in 1558. But , after the departure of ...
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