The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... seems to have had a kind of hereditary connexion with the magistracy of the town of Dreux . He himself was " lieutenant particulier et civil , " a post not easy to trans- late , but apparently possessing some affinity to . a Scotch ...
... seems to have had a kind of hereditary connexion with the magistracy of the town of Dreux . He himself was " lieutenant particulier et civil , " a post not easy to trans- late , but apparently possessing some affinity to . a Scotch ...
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... seems fairly ascertained that the present extension of this easternmost branch of the Latin peoples Over the Walachian and Moldavian plains is due to a colonizing movement from the Alpine regions to the west , effected for the most part ...
... seems fairly ascertained that the present extension of this easternmost branch of the Latin peoples Over the Walachian and Moldavian plains is due to a colonizing movement from the Alpine regions to the west , effected for the most part ...
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... seem to have attempted literature very young , and when he began he began with the theatre , for which at no part of his ... seems to have laid the foundation of the flighty sentimentalism in morals and politics which Rousseau afterwards ...
... seem to have attempted literature very young , and when he began he began with the theatre , for which at no part of his ... seems to have laid the foundation of the flighty sentimentalism in morals and politics which Rousseau afterwards ...
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... seems to have partly pleased and partly annoyed . Here too arose the incomprehensible triangular quarrel between Diderot , Rousseau , and Grimm which ended Rousseau's sojourn at the Hermitage . It is impossible to discuss this at length ...
... seems to have partly pleased and partly annoyed . Here too arose the incomprehensible triangular quarrel between Diderot , Rousseau , and Grimm which ended Rousseau's sojourn at the Hermitage . It is impossible to discuss this at length ...
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... seems to have been spent in pleasuring on the water in the 15th and 16th centuries , and no doubt competitions among the watermen were not uncommon , though there is no record of them . The principal occupation of watermen , who were ...
... seems to have been spent in pleasuring on the water in the 15th and 16th centuries , and no doubt competitions among the watermen were not uncommon , though there is no record of them . The principal occupation of watermen , who were ...
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