The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, Volume 3, Issue 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Biography |
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... obtained were the star of detailed various extravagances he had long the legion of honour , and the title of Baron before observed in Anthoine's conduct , and de St. Joseph . In 1805 he became mayor attributed his strange proceedings to ...
... obtained were the star of detailed various extravagances he had long the legion of honour , and the title of Baron before observed in Anthoine's conduct , and de St. Joseph . In 1805 he became mayor attributed his strange proceedings to ...
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... obtained him more celebrity than any of his own performances . He was more severe in colouring than his master , and was more distinguished for the care with which he finished his works , than for their number . Pliny mentions three of ...
... obtained him more celebrity than any of his own performances . He was more severe in colouring than his master , and was more distinguished for the care with which he finished his works , than for their number . Pliny mentions three of ...
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... obtained his great victory over the Gauls in the hun- dred and thirty - fifth Olympiad , or 239 years before Christ , and Antigonus probably lived about that time . Besides having executed other works in sculpture , noticed by Pliny ...
... obtained his great victory over the Gauls in the hun- dred and thirty - fifth Olympiad , or 239 years before Christ , and Antigonus probably lived about that time . Besides having executed other works in sculpture , noticed by Pliny ...
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... obtain the office of high priest . Herodes was recognised by the Ro- man senate as the legitimate king of Judæa , and ... obtained Lycia , Pamphylia , and the Greater Phrygia . Eumenes , a friend of Perdiccas , was to have Cappadocia ...
... obtain the office of high priest . Herodes was recognised by the Ro- man senate as the legitimate king of Judæa , and ... obtained Lycia , Pamphylia , and the Greater Phrygia . Eumenes , a friend of Perdiccas , was to have Cappadocia ...
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... obtained over the Gauls by the help of his elephants gained him his surname of Soter . It is said that when he was crowned by his soldiers after this battle he exclaimed , with tears , " Shame on us soldiers , who owe our safety to ...
... obtained over the Gauls by the help of his elephants gained him his surname of Soter . It is said that when he was crowned by his soldiers after this battle he exclaimed , with tears , " Shame on us soldiers , who owe our safety to ...
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Page 8 - Essai historique sur le commerce et la navigation de la mer Noire...
Page 259 - Wit they had all in equal measure, and in a measure so large, that no age perhaps ever produced three men, to whom Nature had more bountifully bestowed it, or in whom Art had brought it to higher perfection.
Page 258 - His lucubrations lie neglected among old news-papers, cases, petitions, and abundance of unanswerable letters. I wish to God they had been among the papers of a noble Lord sealed up. Then might Scriblerus have passed for the Pretender, and...
Page 263 - A most excellent and Compendious Method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same Arte...
Page 305 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
Page 258 - When shop was shut up, he would go about the neighbourhood, and earn half a crown by teaching the young men and maids to dance. By these methods he had acquired immense riches, which he used to squander away at back-sword, quarter-staff, and cudgel-play, in which he took great pleasure; and challenged all the country. You will say it is no wonder if BULL and FROG should be jealous of this fellow.
Page 206 - ... vice of that age, many of the wives and children of Queen Elizabeth's glorious captains were reduced to poverty, his purse was their common treasury, and they knew not...
Page 260 - Plight (towards the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century...
Page 259 - ... they all had in common. Dr. Arbuthnot was skilled in every thing which related to science ; Mr. Pope was a master in the fine arts ; and Dr. Swift excelled in the knowledge of the world. Wit they had all in equal measure, and...
Page 269 - Action d'un Feu egal, violent et continue pendant plusieurs Jours sur un grand Nombre de Terres, de Pierres, et Chaux ARCET. Mfetalliques essayees pour la plupart telles qu'elles sortent du Sein de la Terre,