Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Nide 9W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1896 |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 82
Sivu 3
... lived abroad under the patronage of the Comte de Luc , French ambassador to Switzerland , and afterwards of Prince Eugene and the Duc d'Aremberg . At Brussels he made the acquaintance of Voltaire , but from a friend the latter soon ...
... lived abroad under the patronage of the Comte de Luc , French ambassador to Switzerland , and afterwards of Prince Eugene and the Duc d'Aremberg . At Brussels he made the acquaintance of Voltaire , but from a friend the latter soon ...
Sivu 4
... lived apart from her husband a very independent life , having a pension , which late investigation suggests may have been earned by acting as a political spy . twenty - eight years old , pretty and piquant , kindly She was in ...
... lived apart from her husband a very independent life , having a pension , which late investigation suggests may have been earned by acting as a political spy . twenty - eight years old , pretty and piquant , kindly She was in ...
Sivu 5
... lived unobtrusively in botanising rambles , in making laces , and in writing his aggressive Letters from the Mountain , and his powerful reply to the Archbishop of Paris , religious rancour followed him to the remote and peaceful Val de ...
... lived unobtrusively in botanising rambles , in making laces , and in writing his aggressive Letters from the Mountain , and his powerful reply to the Archbishop of Paris , religious rancour followed him to the remote and peaceful Val de ...
Sivu 7
... lived only to be damned as it deserved . Rowe , we are told , had no heart , yet his vivacity and engaging manners procured him many friends and several lucrative offices . The Duke of Queens- berry made him his Under - secretary of ...
... lived only to be damned as it deserved . Rowe , we are told , had no heart , yet his vivacity and engaging manners procured him many friends and several lucrative offices . The Duke of Queens- berry made him his Under - secretary of ...
Sivu 15
... lived in hiding at Sompuis during the Reign of Terror . Three years afterwards ( 1797 ) chosen to the Council of the Five Hundred , he took an active part in the work of that assembly , until the 18th Fructidor . In 1811 he was ...
... lived in hiding at Sompuis during the Reign of Terror . Three years afterwards ( 1797 ) chosen to the Council of the Five Hundred , he took an active part in the work of that assembly , until the 18th Fructidor . In 1811 he was ...
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Sivu 290 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Sivu 361 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Sivu 133 - ... and the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man. And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.
Sivu 243 - Assembly declare, that it is a fundamental Law of this Church, that no Pastor shall be intruded on any Congregation contrary to the will of the people...
Sivu 297 - It cannot be my beauty," she said ; " for he must see that I have none: and it cannot be my wit; for he has not enough to know that I have any.
Sivu 122 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Sivu 131 - Powers recognize the independence of the Samoan Government and the free right of the natives to elect their Chief or King and choose their form of Government according to their own laws and customs.
Sivu 13 - Saturn, the spots on the sun and its turning on its own axis, the inequalities and selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility or impossibility...
Sivu 361 - ... to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London. It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse.
Sivu 22 - In obeying and construing these rules, due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.