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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... success excited ABDIAS , a native of Babylon , who pretend- that envy by which he had through life been ed to be one of the 72 disciples of our Saviour , persecuted ; and having been several times in wrote a legendary treatise , called ...
... success excited ABDIAS , a native of Babylon , who pretend- that envy by which he had through life been ed to be one of the 72 disciples of our Saviour , persecuted ; and having been several times in wrote a legendary treatise , called ...
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... success . Af- toms of that vast and immoderate ambition terwards entering Egypt , he went to the oracle which was afterwards to make him the scourge of Jupiter Ammon ; and upon his return , built of mankind and the pest of the world ...
... success . Af- toms of that vast and immoderate ambition terwards entering Egypt , he went to the oracle which was afterwards to make him the scourge of Jupiter Ammon ; and upon his return , built of mankind and the pest of the world ...
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... successful warrior , notorious for his cruelty , died 1389 . AMURATH II . , successor to Mahomet as Ottoman emperor ; he was the first Turk who used cannon in battle ; he resigned his crown to his son , but afterwards resumed it , and ...
... successful warrior , notorious for his cruelty , died 1389 . AMURATH II . , successor to Mahomet as Ottoman emperor ; he was the first Turk who used cannon in battle ; he resigned his crown to his son , but afterwards resumed it , and ...
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... successful , but was finally conquered by the Sci- pios , and died 187 B. C. ANTIOCHUS IV . , son of the Great , succeeded after ins brother Philopater , and died 165 B. C. ANTIOCHUS V. was slain by Demetrius , in the second year of his ...
... successful , but was finally conquered by the Sci- pios , and died 187 B. C. ANTIOCHUS IV . , son of the Great , succeeded after ins brother Philopater , and died 165 B. C. ANTIOCHUS V. was slain by Demetrius , in the second year of his ...
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... success was great . The Oratorio ( by Dr. ARRIAN , a famous historian and philoso- Brown ) of the Cure of Saul , composed in 1767 , pher , who lived under the emperor Adrian and was considered to be the best production since the two ...
... success was great . The Oratorio ( by Dr. ARRIAN , a famous historian and philoso- Brown ) of the Cure of Saul , composed in 1767 , pher , who lived under the emperor Adrian and was considered to be the best production since the two ...
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