General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons Of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order, Volume 3Robinson, 1802 - 672 pages |
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... racter , though their adversary . Livii Hist . II . Univers . Hist.-A. CLAUDIUS , APPIUS , the Decemvir , sup- posed to be the son of the preceding , was one of the designated consuls , B.C. 453 , at the time when deputies sent from ...
... racter , though their adversary . Livii Hist . II . Univers . Hist.-A. CLAUDIUS , APPIUS , the Decemvir , sup- posed to be the son of the preceding , was one of the designated consuls , B.C. 453 , at the time when deputies sent from ...
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... racter : " He unites solid judgment to extenfive erudition ; and what is particularly pleasing is , that he is a thousand times more modest than one who knows nothing , and is as chearful as if he had never been a recluse . " His merit ...
... racter : " He unites solid judgment to extenfive erudition ; and what is particularly pleasing is , that he is a thousand times more modest than one who knows nothing , and is as chearful as if he had never been a recluse . " His merit ...
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... racter , and gamed , hunted , raked , and drank with him . She continually planned new scenes for his amusement , and scrupled not to sacri- fice all the decorums of sex and rank in order to suit herself to his vitiated inclinations ...
... racter , and gamed , hunted , raked , and drank with him . She continually planned new scenes for his amusement , and scrupled not to sacri- fice all the decorums of sex and rank in order to suit herself to his vitiated inclinations ...
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... racter of a bold and intrepid defender of the high claims of the Roman see , however ob- noxious or unwarrantable . This character pointed him out as a proper person to preside at the council of Jerusalem , in which Henry V. emperor of ...
... racter of a bold and intrepid defender of the high claims of the Roman see , however ob- noxious or unwarrantable . This character pointed him out as a proper person to preside at the council of Jerusalem , in which Henry V. emperor of ...
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... some modern writers been mistaken for another Conrad , who was a cardinal and archbishop of Mentz , in the latter part of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries . The last - mentioned cha- racter is CON CON ( 108 )
... some modern writers been mistaken for another Conrad , who was a cardinal and archbishop of Mentz , in the latter part of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries . The last - mentioned cha- racter is CON CON ( 108 )
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