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... cause it to be translated . Baikov's name , however , has been sadly metamorphosed by all his translators , who call him Saedor Sacowilk Boicoot ! ( Snegirev . ) BAIL , ( Louis , ) a French theologian , born at Abbeville , and died at ...
... cause it to be translated . Baikov's name , however , has been sadly metamorphosed by all his translators , who call him Saedor Sacowilk Boicoot ! ( Snegirev . ) BAIL , ( Louis , ) a French theologian , born at Abbeville , and died at ...
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... Causes of Decay in Wood , and the Means of Remedy . He was the author also of two other memoirs , one communicated to the Society of Agricul- ture at Paris on the moving sands on the coast of the Pas - de - Calais . ( Biog . Univ ...
... Causes of Decay in Wood , and the Means of Remedy . He was the author also of two other memoirs , one communicated to the Society of Agricul- ture at Paris on the moving sands on the coast of the Pas - de - Calais . ( Biog . Univ ...
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... cause . His views were so well known , that when the electors of Paris assembled in 1789 to nominate deputies to the ... causes of discontent , or to arrest , for any length of time , the overwhelming torrent of popular outrage . In fact ...
... cause . His views were so well known , that when the electors of Paris assembled in 1789 to nominate deputies to the ... causes of discontent , or to arrest , for any length of time , the overwhelming torrent of popular outrage . In fact ...
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... cause or other , doubted by the government . A work , entitled , Le Comté de Montbéliard agrandi et enrichi au préjudice de la Franche- Comté , was published by him at Be- sançon in 1789 , and dedicated to the states - general . ( Biog ...
... cause or other , doubted by the government . A work , entitled , Le Comté de Montbéliard agrandi et enrichi au préjudice de la Franche- Comté , was published by him at Be- sançon in 1789 , and dedicated to the states - general . ( Biog ...
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... cause of truth ; and for such a purpose the con- struction of the works themselves were well adapted . Their first idea appears to have been similar to that of the Acta Eruditorum : -the proposal of scientific challenges to each other ...
... cause of truth ; and for such a purpose the con- struction of the works themselves were well adapted . Their first idea appears to have been similar to that of the Acta Eruditorum : -the proposal of scientific challenges to each other ...
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