The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, Volume 3, Issue 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 - Biography |
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... battle the brother of Gushtásp was slain by the son of Arjásp . The young hero , how- ever , did not long enjoy his triumph ; he was slain by Asfandiyár , the son of Gushtásp , the bravest warrior of his nation . The battle terminated ...
... battle the brother of Gushtásp was slain by the son of Arjásp . The young hero , how- ever , did not long enjoy his triumph ; he was slain by Asfandiyár , the son of Gushtásp , the bravest warrior of his nation . The battle terminated ...
Page 494
... battle of Lützen . The book is illustrated with several portraits of the lead- ing men on both sides , but possesses little other value , though two translations of it ap- peared at the time , one in German and the other in Dutch ; the ...
... battle of Lützen . The book is illustrated with several portraits of the lead- ing men on both sides , but possesses little other value , though two translations of it ap- peared at the time , one in German and the other in Dutch ; the ...
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... battle of Poi- tiers , was signalized by a spirited series of resolutions against the English . These de- crees , however , produced a sedition among the people of Toulouse , who were unwilling to submit to a new levy of troops , and ...
... battle of Poi- tiers , was signalized by a spirited series of resolutions against the English . These de- crees , however , produced a sedition among the people of Toulouse , who were unwilling to submit to a new levy of troops , and ...
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... battle of Poltava , Armfelt distinguished himself by the courage and military talent which he de- veloped . In the ... battle of Storkyro , or , as it is sometimes called , the battle of Vasa , de- cided the fate of Finland . The ...
... battle of Poltava , Armfelt distinguished himself by the courage and military talent which he de- veloped . In the ... battle of Storkyro , or , as it is sometimes called , the battle of Vasa , de- cided the fate of Finland . The ...
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... battle was fought has been the subject of many conjec- tures and many learned dissertations . A list of some of the principal works that treat on the subject is given below . According to an opinion , founded on a careful examina- tion ...
... battle was fought has been the subject of many conjec- tures and many learned dissertations . A list of some of the principal works that treat on the subject is given below . According to an opinion , founded on a careful examina- tion ...
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Page 729 - And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.
Page 485 - ... distribution of the different members of the apparatus into one co-operative body, in impelling each organ with its appropriate delicacy and speed, and above all, in training human beings to renounce their desultory habits of work, and to identify themselves with the unvarying regularity of the complex automaton.
Page 832 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Page 640 - Vincent's valuable work on the " Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, containing an account of the Navigation of the Ancients from the Sea of Suez to the coast of Zanguebar,
Page 492 - He was impatient of whatever interfered with his favourite pursuits; and the fact is too strikingly characteristic not to be mentioned, that he separated from his wife not many years after their marriage because she, convinced that he would starve his family by scheming when he should have been shaving, broke some of his experimental models of machinery.
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Page 489 - ... by the decision of the Court of King's Bench, in the case of...
Page 481 - It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in a morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon, or gown, was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner.
Page 736 - About this time he wrote a work, entitled " A Discourse: wherein is examined, what is particularly lawfull during the Confusions and Revolutions of Government ; or how farre a man may lawfully conforme to the powers and commands of those who with various successes hold kingdoms divided with civill or forreigne warres, whether it be, 1.
Page 451 - I now told him to come to me at the fort twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, to teach me other phrases, which I would write down.