A new general biographical dictionary, projected and partly arranged by H.J. Rose, Volume 51848 - 1857 pages |
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... respecting the political , social , and natural history of the country . BRAKEL , ( John de , ) a brave naval officer in the Dutch service , born in 1618 . He first served in the squadron under De Ruyter , and gave distinguished proofs ...
... respecting the political , social , and natural history of the country . BRAKEL , ( John de , ) a brave naval officer in the Dutch service , born in 1618 . He first served in the squadron under De Ruyter , and gave distinguished proofs ...
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... respecting the na- ture and qualities of the diamond , and suggested several improvements in the manufacture of porcelain . He died in 1824 . BRANCAS - VILLENEUVE , ( André- François de , ) born at the close of the seventeenth century ...
... respecting the na- ture and qualities of the diamond , and suggested several improvements in the manufacture of porcelain . He died in 1824 . BRANCAS - VILLENEUVE , ( André- François de , ) born at the close of the seventeenth century ...
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... respecting intestinal worms . Schreiber , the director of the museum of Natural History at Vienna , engaged him to enlarge and to class the Helmintho- logic department ; and he was appointed one of the conservators of the museum . He ...
... respecting intestinal worms . Schreiber , the director of the museum of Natural History at Vienna , engaged him to enlarge and to class the Helmintho- logic department ; and he was appointed one of the conservators of the museum . He ...
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... respecting the religion , govern- ment , manners , and history of that singular people . Besides the fore - mentioned pub- lications , we have the following works by this indefatigable man ; -Histoire des Révolutions de Génes , 1750 , 3 ...
... respecting the religion , govern- ment , manners , and history of that singular people . Besides the fore - mentioned pub- lications , we have the following works by this indefatigable man ; -Histoire des Révolutions de Génes , 1750 , 3 ...
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... respecting the civil law , which he regarded as the fundamental law of France . This opinion he has attempted to establish in his notes . His next work , which he undertook at the suggestion of the chancellor D'Aguesseau , is entitled ...
... respecting the civil law , which he regarded as the fundamental law of France . This opinion he has attempted to establish in his notes . His next work , which he undertook at the suggestion of the chancellor D'Aguesseau , is entitled ...
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Page 116 - Translation of a Discourse of the Original Countrey, Manners, Government, and Religion of the Cossacks, with another of the Precopian Tartars; and the History of the Wars of the Cossacks against Poland, Lond.
Page 269 - Wilson's Illustration of the Method of explaining the New Testament, by the early opinions of Jews and Christians concerning Christ.
Page 110 - Harrison, preaching against bishops, ceremonies, ecclesiastical courts, ordaining of ministers, &c. for which $ as he afterwards boasted, he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day.
Page 57 - Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, considered with reference to Natural Theology.
Page 246 - The allied powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the only obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath, declares that he renounces for himself and his heirs, the thrones of France and Italy, and that there is no personal sacrifice, even that of life, •which he is not ready to make for the interests of France.
Page 115 - His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another.
Page 281 - The others, the infidels, are outlaws of the constitution; not of this country, but of the human race. They are never, never to be supported, never to be tolerated. Under the systematic attacks of these people, I see some of the props of good government already begin to fail ; I see propagated principles, which will not leave to religion even a toleration. I see myself sinking every day under the attacks of these wretched people — How shall I arm myself against them?
Page 219 - HE appeared in countenance to be of a stern and rough temper; but in his conversation mild and affable; not given to loquacity, or much discourse in company, unless some urgent occasion required it; observing never to boast of himself, or his parts, but rather seem low in his own eyes, and submit himself to the judgment of others...
Page 294 - North Briton' was a false, scandalous, and seditious libel, and ordered it to be burnt by the hands of the common hangman...
Page 115 - ... and his combinations uncouth. He fell into an age in which our language began to lose the stability which it had obtained in the time of Elizabeth ; and was considered by every writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy.