Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, Volume 41819 |
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... Italy , where be built a temple to Apollo , and thence directed his course to Sicily , where he was kindly received by Cocalus , who reigned over part of the country . Many monuments of his ingenuity in Sicily still existed in the age ...
... Italy , where be built a temple to Apollo , and thence directed his course to Sicily , where he was kindly received by Cocalus , who reigned over part of the country . Many monuments of his ingenuity in Sicily still existed in the age ...
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... Italy . He wrote the Life of his master Isidorus ; and dedicated it to Theodora , a very learned and philosophi- cal lady , who had also been a pupil to Isidorus . In this Life , which was copiously written , he frequently made oblique ...
... Italy . He wrote the Life of his master Isidorus ; and dedicated it to Theodora , a very learned and philosophi- cal lady , who had also been a pupil to Isidorus . In this Life , which was copiously written , he frequently made oblique ...
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... Italian jesuit , born at Celena in 1554. He became a cele- brated professor of philosophy , and was rector of several colleges . Clement VIII . sent him as his nuncio to the Maronites of Libanus . Of this journey he wrote an account ...
... Italian jesuit , born at Celena in 1554. He became a cele- brated professor of philosophy , and was rector of several colleges . Clement VIII . sent him as his nuncio to the Maronites of Libanus . Of this journey he wrote an account ...
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... Italian poet , born at Florence in 1265. Dante was of an ambitious turn , and joined one of the factions which then disturbed Florence : but the party to which he belonged proving the weakest , he was banished . He then prevailed on the ...
... Italian poet , born at Florence in 1265. Dante was of an ambitious turn , and joined one of the factions which then disturbed Florence : but the party to which he belonged proving the weakest , he was banished . He then prevailed on the ...
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... Italy and Spain , sometimes rising to a yard in height . In our own country the flowers do not appear till June , and are rarely followed by seeds . 5. D. cneorum . Spear - leaved daphne ; a deciduous shrub of the south of Europe ...
... Italy and Spain , sometimes rising to a yard in height . In our own country the flowers do not appear till June , and are rarely followed by seeds . 5. D. cneorum . Spear - leaved daphne ; a deciduous shrub of the south of Europe ...
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