A General Biographical Dictionary, 2. köideWhittaker and Company, 1835 |
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... Prince's Worthies . GARNERIN ( - — ) a celebrated aëro- naut , who , if not the most scientific , was at least one of the most daring and adventurous of the profession . He was the first man who made the experiment of descending in a ...
... Prince's Worthies . GARNERIN ( - — ) a celebrated aëro- naut , who , if not the most scientific , was at least one of the most daring and adventurous of the profession . He was the first man who made the experiment of descending in a ...
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... prince of Wales . the Spanish fleet off Sicily . This success was He was made regent during the king's visit to followed by the recovery both of Sicily and the continent in 1716 , but a political difference Sardinia , and although the ...
... prince of Wales . the Spanish fleet off Sicily . This success was He was made regent during the king's visit to followed by the recovery both of Sicily and the continent in 1716 , but a political difference Sardinia , and although the ...
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... prince of very moderate abilities , the pretender and his council , that a retreat was personally parsimonious , and wholly regardless quickly determined upon , and effected without of science or literature ; but although hasty and loss ...
... prince of very moderate abilities , the pretender and his council , that a retreat was personally parsimonious , and wholly regardless quickly determined upon , and effected without of science or literature ; but although hasty and loss ...
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... prince - abbot survived till the year 1793 . -Biog . Dict . of Mus . " " order , and in 1742 he became professor of phi- losophy at Macerata , and afterwards at Turin , where he was appointed tutor to the prince royal of Sardinia . In ...
... prince - abbot survived till the year 1793 . -Biog . Dict . of Mus . " " order , and in 1742 he became professor of phi- losophy at Macerata , and afterwards at Turin , where he was appointed tutor to the prince royal of Sardinia . In ...
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... prince , who had | that he was obliged to resign , although he still continued to live according to the rules of La Trappe . In his first volume of his " Hist . generale de Citeaux , " the Bernardines were so violently attacked , that ...
... prince , who had | that he was obliged to resign , although he still continued to live according to the rules of La Trappe . In his first volume of his " Hist . generale de Citeaux , " the Bernardines were so violently attacked , that ...
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