The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... regarded as the financial genius of the family , and the chief originator of the transactions which have created for the house its unexampled position in the financial world . He came to Manchester about 1800 to act as a purchaser for ...
... regarded as the financial genius of the family , and the chief originator of the transactions which have created for the house its unexampled position in the financial world . He came to Manchester about 1800 to act as a purchaser for ...
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... regarded as having ceased to be Roman , but the Western Christian lands were still called lands of the Rám , without reference to the fact that they had in great part ceased to pay any allegiance to the " ' king of the Rúm , " ie ...
... regarded as having ceased to be Roman , but the Western Christian lands were still called lands of the Rám , without reference to the fact that they had in great part ceased to pay any allegiance to the " ' king of the Rúm , " ie ...
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... regarded his sentimental- ism with favour . He was lionized in London to his heart's content and discontent , for it may truly be said of Rousseau that he was equally indignant at neglect and intolerant of attention . When , after not a ...
... regarded his sentimental- ism with favour . He was lionized in London to his heart's content and discontent , for it may truly be said of Rousseau that he was equally indignant at neglect and intolerant of attention . When , after not a ...
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... regarded as a great favour to be admitted a pupil of Rubens . Apart from the success of his works , another powerful motive had helped to detain the master in Antwerp , -his marriage with Isabella Brant ( October 1609 ) . Many pictures ...
... regarded as a great favour to be admitted a pupil of Rubens . Apart from the success of his works , another powerful motive had helped to detain the master in Antwerp , -his marriage with Isabella Brant ( October 1609 ) . Many pictures ...
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... regarded as a poem in painting , and no person conversant with the literature of the time can fail to recognize that st.ange mixture of the sacred and the ' mythological in which the most admired authors of the 17th century , beginning ...
... regarded as a poem in painting , and no person conversant with the literature of the time can fail to recognize that st.ange mixture of the sacred and the ' mythological in which the most admired authors of the 17th century , beginning ...
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