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... experience , and inherited the leadership ruled by paternosters . Still , when cruelty seemed requisite , of the opposition to the then dominant party of the greater gilds he always contrived that the chief odium of it should fall upon ...
... experience , and inherited the leadership ruled by paternosters . Still , when cruelty seemed requisite , of the opposition to the then dominant party of the greater gilds he always contrived that the chief odium of it should fall upon ...
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... experience in the manage- ment of ecclesiastical affairs . He was the founder of the Villa Médici at Rome , and the purchaser of many priceless works of art , such as the Niobe group and many other statues afterwards transported by him ...
... experience in the manage- ment of ecclesiastical affairs . He was the founder of the Villa Médici at Rome , and the purchaser of many priceless works of art , such as the Niobe group and many other statues afterwards transported by him ...
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... experience to frame ; tinction by defending the “ Vascello , " a position near the Porta we meet with a nomenclature of parts of the body substantially . San Pancrazio , against the French . During the siege of Rome the same ( according ...
... experience to frame ; tinction by defending the “ Vascello , " a position near the Porta we meet with a nomenclature of parts of the body substantially . San Pancrazio , against the French . During the siege of Rome the same ( according ...
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... experience , to which word they gave a special meaning . Three sources , and three only , could experience draw from : observation , history ( ie . recorded observation ) , and judgment by analogy . These three bases of knowledge were ...
... experience , to which word they gave a special meaning . Three sources , and three only , could experience draw from : observation , history ( ie . recorded observation ) , and judgment by analogy . These three bases of knowledge were ...
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... experience , though it would be difficult to attribute to him any decided advance in medical knowledge . But the most prominent figure in Byzantine medicine is that of Paul of Aegina ( Paulus Aegineta ) , who lived probably in the early ...
... experience , though it would be difficult to attribute to him any decided advance in medical knowledge . But the most prominent figure in Byzantine medicine is that of Paul of Aegina ( Paulus Aegineta ) , who lived probably in the early ...
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