The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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Page 68
... took a leading part in negotiating the remarkable coalition between North and Fox , and was rewarded by being made vice - treasurer of Ireland . In 1784 he opposed Pitt's proposal for commercial reciprocity with Ireland , but in so ...
... took a leading part in negotiating the remarkable coalition between North and Fox , and was rewarded by being made vice - treasurer of Ireland . In 1784 he opposed Pitt's proposal for commercial reciprocity with Ireland , but in so ...
Page 71
... took his third departure for Britain . During his earlier residence in Edinburgh he had begun to publish his Ameri- can Ornithological Biography , which at length filled five large octavo volumes . The first was issued there by Adam ...
... took his third departure for Britain . During his earlier residence in Edinburgh he had begun to publish his Ameri- can Ornithological Biography , which at length filled five large octavo volumes . The first was issued there by Adam ...
Page 76
... took up his abode in retirement , forming , with some friends who joined him in devotion , a small religious community , which looked to him as its head . They had all things in common , as in the early church , and fasting and prayer ...
... took up his abode in retirement , forming , with some friends who joined him in devotion , a small religious community , which looked to him as its head . They had all things in common , as in the early church , and fasting and prayer ...
Page 79
... took an interest in this youth , caused him to be enrolled among the Patricians , and bred him with a view to the highest honours of the republic . Already , in his eighteenth year , he had chosen him for his " master of the horse ...
... took an interest in this youth , caused him to be enrolled among the Patricians , and bred him with a view to the highest honours of the republic . Already , in his eighteenth year , he had chosen him for his " master of the horse ...
Page 124
... took part in by marrying the daughter of Charles the Bold , acquired the second crusade . He removed the ducal residence to the Netherlands in 1477 , but on the death of his father in Vienna , and began the building of St Stephen's ...
... took part in by marrying the daughter of Charles the Bold , acquired the second crusade . He removed the ducal residence to the Netherlands in 1477 , but on the death of his father in Vienna , and began the building of St Stephen's ...
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