A Universal Biographical Dictionary Containing the Lives of the Most Celebratd Characters of Every Age and Nation: ... to which is Added, a Dictionary of the Principal Divinities and Heroes of Grecian and Roman Mythology, and a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living CharactersS. Andrus and Son, 1898 - 444 páginas |
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... famous wall , or rampart , extending from the mouth of the Tyne to the Solway Frith , 20 ELFRED , or ALFRED , the Great , youngest miles in length , to prevent the incursions of the son of Ethelwolf , king of the West Saxons , was ...
... famous wall , or rampart , extending from the mouth of the Tyne to the Solway Frith , 20 ELFRED , or ALFRED , the Great , youngest miles in length , to prevent the incursions of the son of Ethelwolf , king of the West Saxons , was ...
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... famous as an author When weterians , flourished about 385 . consider the qualifications of this prince , and ÆSCHINES , a Socratic philosopher , the son the many virtues he possessed , we need not of Charinus , a sausage - maker ...
... famous as an author When weterians , flourished about 385 . consider the qualifications of this prince , and ÆSCHINES , a Socratic philosopher , the son the many virtues he possessed , we need not of Charinus , a sausage - maker ...
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... famous is the second of that name , en- gaged in the Peloponnesian war , and died 427 B. C .; and the fourth , in conseqence of his at- tempts to restore Lacedæmon to her ancient dis- ciplíne and independence , put to death 241 B. C. ...
... famous is the second of that name , en- gaged in the Peloponnesian war , and died 427 B. C .; and the fourth , in conseqence of his at- tempts to restore Lacedæmon to her ancient dis- ciplíne and independence , put to death 241 B. C. ...
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... famous performance was his Chronicle of king Charles VII . ALBANY , John , duke of , a Scotch nobleman , in the service of Francis I. , king of France , in- trusted with an army of 10,000 men , to attack Naples ; he died 1536 ...
... famous performance was his Chronicle of king Charles VII . ALBANY , John , duke of , a Scotch nobleman , in the service of Francis I. , king of France , in- trusted with an army of 10,000 men , to attack Naples ; he died 1536 ...
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... famous Por- tuguese warrior , and the founder of the power of that nation in India , died at Goa , 1515 . ALBUQUERQUE , Blaise , son of the above , born in 1500. He was raised to the first honours of the state , and published an account ...
... famous Por- tuguese warrior , and the founder of the power of that nation in India , died at Goa , 1515 . ALBUQUERQUE , Blaise , son of the above , born in 1500. He was raised to the first honours of the state , and published an account ...
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