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... original Latin into French . - Vossius . Cave . a ABBO ( FLORIACENCIS ) or Abbot of Fleuri , Benedictine monk of the tenth century , highly celebrated for his learning . Abbo resided for some time in England , and became a great ...
... original Latin into French . - Vossius . Cave . a ABBO ( FLORIACENCIS ) or Abbot of Fleuri , Benedictine monk of the tenth century , highly celebrated for his learning . Abbo resided for some time in England , and became a great ...
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... original institution in 1776 . The eldest will be long remembered as the composer of the popular air adapted to M. G. Lewis's celebrated ballad of Crazy Jane . ABRESCH ( FRED . LOUIS ) an able critic and Greek scholar , was born at ...
... original institution in 1776 . The eldest will be long remembered as the composer of the popular air adapted to M. G. Lewis's celebrated ballad of Crazy Jane . ABRESCH ( FRED . LOUIS ) an able critic and Greek scholar , was born at ...
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... original ten.- Nouv . Diet . Hist . ENEAS SYLVIUS . See PIUS I. ENEAS , or ÆNGUS , an Irish abbot or bishop of the 8th century , who compiled a curious account of Irish saints in five books : the first of which contains 345 bishops ...
... original ten.- Nouv . Diet . Hist . ENEAS SYLVIUS . See PIUS I. ENEAS , or ÆNGUS , an Irish abbot or bishop of the 8th century , who compiled a curious account of Irish saints in five books : the first of which contains 345 bishops ...
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... original produc- Nations , where he showed early marks of ge- tions rank him among the most celebrated ma- nius and capacity ; and as he composed in the thematicians of the age . In addition to these first year of his philosophical ...
... original produc- Nations , where he showed early marks of ge- tions rank him among the most celebrated ma- nius and capacity ; and as he composed in the thematicians of the age . In addition to these first year of his philosophical ...
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... original Greek and aged forty - six . Peter the Great was his son in Latin . Of the latter version , Haller gave by his second wife Natalia , daughter of a cap- an edition at Lausanne in 1772. - Friend's tain of hussars . - Mod . Univ ...
... original Greek and aged forty - six . Peter the Great was his son in Latin . Of the latter version , Haller gave by his second wife Natalia , daughter of a cap- an edition at Lausanne in 1772. - Friend's tain of hussars . - Mod . Univ ...
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