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... academy , and Carneades the chief of the third . ( See their respective articles . ) - Plut . ACCIUS ( LUCIUS ) a Latin tragic poet , who was born in the year of Rome , 584. He founded his tragedies on the Greek model , and apparently ...
... academy , and Carneades the chief of the third . ( See their respective articles . ) - Plut . ACCIUS ( LUCIUS ) a Latin tragic poet , who was born in the year of Rome , 584. He founded his tragedies on the Greek model , and apparently ...
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... academy , and exhibited on his ad- mission a " Neptune calming the Waves . " He subsequently executed the groupe of " Nep- tune and Amphitrite " for Versailles , for which , besides the stipulated price , he obtained a pen- sion of 500 ...
... academy , and exhibited on his ad- mission a " Neptune calming the Waves . " He subsequently executed the groupe of " Nep- tune and Amphitrite " for Versailles , for which , besides the stipulated price , he obtained a pen- sion of 500 ...
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... Academy of Erfurt , which office however after the death of Addison , announces the opi- he soon relinquished and settled at Leipsic , nion , if not the generosity , of their author . where he was made librarian to the elector of ...
... Academy of Erfurt , which office however after the death of Addison , announces the opi- he soon relinquished and settled at Leipsic , nion , if not the generosity , of their author . where he was made librarian to the elector of ...
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... Academy of Berlin , his touches Canon and Madame Tencin , the last of " Researches concerning the Integral Cal- whom unfeelingly caused him to be exposed as culus , " which is greatly indebted to him for its a foundling near the church ...
... Academy of Berlin , his touches Canon and Madame Tencin , the last of " Researches concerning the Integral Cal- whom unfeelingly caused him to be exposed as culus , " which is greatly indebted to him for its a foundling near the church ...
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... Academy of Sciences at nonry in the cathedral , and henceforward ap- Petersburgh , where he lectured on botany , a plied himself vigorously to his studies until his science in which he was eminent . He pub- death in 1601 , in the sixty ...
... Academy of Sciences at nonry in the cathedral , and henceforward ap- Petersburgh , where he lectured on botany , a plied himself vigorously to his studies until his science in which he was eminent . He pub- death in 1601 , in the sixty ...
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