The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideDay Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith Werner, 1902 |
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... returned from Alexandria to Pergamus . In 164 he went for the first time to Rome . There he healed Eudemus , a celebrated peripatetic philos sopher , and other persons of distinction ; and ere long , by his learning and unparalleled ...
... returned from Alexandria to Pergamus . In 164 he went for the first time to Rome . There he healed Eudemus , a celebrated peripatetic philos sopher , and other persons of distinction ; and ere long , by his learning and unparalleled ...
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... returned to Naples after a ten years ' residence in Paris , where his reputation as a wit had long surpassed that of an economist or a statesman . Until his death at Naples , on October 30 , 1787 , he kept up with his old Parisian ...
... returned to Naples after a ten years ' residence in Paris , where his reputation as a wit had long surpassed that of an economist or a statesman . Until his death at Naples , on October 30 , 1787 , he kept up with his old Parisian ...
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... returned to Florence , where his family habitually resided . We next hear of him as lectur- ing before the Florentine Academy on the site and dimen- sions of Dante's Inferno ; and he shortly afterwards pub- lished an essay descriptive ...
... returned to Florence , where his family habitually resided . We next hear of him as lectur- ing before the Florentine Academy on the site and dimen- sions of Dante's Inferno ; and he shortly afterwards pub- lished an essay descriptive ...
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... returned to Florence three months later , not ill- pleased , as his letters testify , with the result of his visit to Rome . Ho brought with him , for the refutation of calumnious reports circulated by his enemies , a written ...
... returned to Florence three months later , not ill- pleased , as his letters testify , with the result of his visit to Rome . Ho brought with him , for the refutation of calumnious reports circulated by his enemies , a written ...
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... returned to the Levant in 1676 ; and in 1679 he undertook a third voyage , being commissioned by the French East India Company to collect for the cabinet of Colbert ; on the expiry of this commission he was instructed by the Government ...
... returned to the Levant in 1676 ; and in 1679 he undertook a third voyage , being commissioned by the French East India Company to collect for the cabinet of Colbert ; on the expiry of this commission he was instructed by the Government ...
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