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... WRITINGS OF THE .. MOST EMINENT PERSONS IN EVERY NATION ; PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH AND IRISH ; FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE PRESENT TIME . LOV YON DE LA VILLE * A NEW EDITION , REVISED AND ENLARGED BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS , F. S. A. ...
... WRITINGS OF THE .. MOST EMINENT PERSONS IN EVERY NATION ; PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH AND IRISH ; FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE PRESENT TIME . LOV YON DE LA VILLE * A NEW EDITION , REVISED AND ENLARGED BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS , F. S. A. ...
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... writings of M. Luther were publicly burnt , Camb . 1521 , and a translation from Greek into Latin of Plutarch's ... writing , and the celebrity of his scholars Cano and Velázquez , than to the superiority of his works . He was a pupil of ...
... writings of M. Luther were publicly burnt , Camb . 1521 , and a translation from Greek into Latin of Plutarch's ... writing , and the celebrity of his scholars Cano and Velázquez , than to the superiority of his works . He was a pupil of ...
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... writings , in order to do honour to his native place , which certainly would not have been less honoured if he had omitted to tell us that among the eminent men of Brindisi , was M. Lenius Strabo , the first inventor of bird - cages . 2 ...
... writings , in order to do honour to his native place , which certainly would not have been less honoured if he had omitted to tell us that among the eminent men of Brindisi , was M. Lenius Strabo , the first inventor of bird - cages . 2 ...
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... writings , congress granted him three thou- sand dollars , after having rejected with great indignation a motion for appointing him historiographer to the United States , with a salary . Two only of the states noticed by gratuities his ...
... writings , congress granted him three thou- sand dollars , after having rejected with great indignation a motion for appointing him historiographer to the United States , with a salary . Two only of the states noticed by gratuities his ...
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... justly entitled . He was familiar with those artifices of writing which very much promoted his objects . Things that are great are easily travestied . It is only to express them in a vulgar idiom , and incorporate them PAINE . 29.
... justly entitled . He was familiar with those artifices of writing which very much promoted his objects . Things that are great are easily travestied . It is only to express them in a vulgar idiom , and incorporate them PAINE . 29.
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