The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... received great embellishments , the central flèche was erected , and the portals were decorated with new sculptures , Georges d'Amboise , the virtuous minister of Louis XII . , chose the chapel of the Virgin for his place of burial ; he ...
... received great embellishments , the central flèche was erected , and the portals were decorated with new sculptures , Georges d'Amboise , the virtuous minister of Louis XII . , chose the chapel of the Virgin for his place of burial ; he ...
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... received their caftan of office at Constantinople , where they were consecrated by the Greek patriarch . The system favoured Turkish extortion in two ways : the presence of the voivode's family connexions at Staniboul gave the Porte so ...
... received their caftan of office at Constantinople , where they were consecrated by the Greek patriarch . The system favoured Turkish extortion in two ways : the presence of the voivode's family connexions at Staniboul gave the Porte so ...
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... received by the Académie des wandered about in Turin for some time , and at last estab- Sciences , where it was read in August 1742 , and he was lished himself as footman to a Madame de Vercellis . unable to obtain pupils . Madame Dupin ...
... received by the Académie des wandered about in Turin for some time , and at last estab- Sciences , where it was read in August 1742 , and he was lished himself as footman to a Madame de Vercellis . unable to obtain pupils . Madame Dupin ...
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... received 6000 livres , for the Contrat 1000 . · Orageuse ( 1857 ) , the Coucher de Soleil. Julie , ou La Nouvelle Héloïse , is a novel written in letters describing the loves of a man of low position and a girl of rank , her subsequent ...
... received 6000 livres , for the Contrat 1000 . · Orageuse ( 1857 ) , the Coucher de Soleil. Julie , ou La Nouvelle Héloïse , is a novel written in letters describing the loves of a man of low position and a girl of rank , her subsequent ...
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... received 2400 florins for this picture . While employed at Rome in 1608 , Rubens received most alarming news as to the state of his mother's health . The duke of Gonzaga was then absent from Italy , but the dutiful son , without ...
... received 2400 florins for this picture . While employed at Rome in 1608 , Rubens received most alarming news as to the state of his mother's health . The duke of Gonzaga was then absent from Italy , but the dutiful son , without ...
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