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... continued Grævius ' " Thesaurus Anti- advanced age , leaving an only son , the richest quitatum Italiæ , " and carried on an extensive man in Holland . A volume of his negociations business from 1682 until his death in 1730.- has been ...
... continued Grævius ' " Thesaurus Anti- advanced age , leaving an only son , the richest quitatum Italiæ , " and carried on an extensive man in Holland . A volume of his negociations business from 1682 until his death in 1730.- has been ...
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... continued , and in consequence of his taking , while suffer- BIOG . DICT.-No. II . pearing much younger than he really was in consequence of the smallness of his stature , his success in carrying off the university prizes excited ...
... continued , and in consequence of his taking , while suffer- BIOG . DICT.-No. II . pearing much younger than he really was in consequence of the smallness of his stature , his success in carrying off the university prizes excited ...
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... continued in the service of the French court , by which he was employed in several embassies . His works are , 1. Opera Toscana , a collection of poems and a tragedy , 2 vols . 8vo ; 2. La Cultivazione , an elegant poem , in imitation ...
... continued in the service of the French court , by which he was employed in several embassies . His works are , 1. Opera Toscana , a collection of poems and a tragedy , 2 vols . 8vo ; 2. La Cultivazione , an elegant poem , in imitation ...
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... continued him after he is dead . In order to enlarge his its history by Pelisson and Olivet , by writing , income , D'Alembert at first turned his thoughts in the form of panegyrics , or eloges , a history towards the law , and took his ...
... continued him after he is dead . In order to enlarge his its history by Pelisson and Olivet , by writing , income , D'Alembert at first turned his thoughts in the form of panegyrics , or eloges , a history towards the law , and took his ...
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... continued to add new monkish writers in the age in which he lived . tragedies . Alfieri beheld the opening of the -Biog . Universelle . Revolution with the feelings of a lover of li- ALFARABI , an eminent Arabian philoso - berty , and ...
... continued to add new monkish writers in the age in which he lived . tragedies . Alfieri beheld the opening of the -Biog . Universelle . Revolution with the feelings of a lover of li- ALFARABI , an eminent Arabian philoso - berty , and ...
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