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... History of Italy " being on the eve of the publication of a series of moral and publication . religious works , with ... History might venture on a new attack . He of Napoleon Bonaparte , " " The History crossed the Chelif , took ...
... History of Italy " being on the eve of the publication of a series of moral and publication . religious works , with ... History might venture on a new attack . He of Napoleon Bonaparte , " " The History crossed the Chelif , took ...
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... history , he preferred the great attention to astronomy , he soon dis - study of medicine as affording a fuller tinguished himself by the profundity of scope for the bent of his genius . To his researches . He is chiefly known by carry ...
... history , he preferred the great attention to astronomy , he soon dis - study of medicine as affording a fuller tinguished himself by the profundity of scope for the bent of his genius . To his researches . He is chiefly known by carry ...
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... History of Halys ; and by the Society for the Pro- the Fresh - water Fishes of Europe , and pagation of the Gospel to open up nego- the " Principles of Zoology , " by himself ciations with the Nestorian Christians . and Dr. A. A. Gould ...
... History of Halys ; and by the Society for the Pro- the Fresh - water Fishes of Europe , and pagation of the Gospel to open up nego- the " Principles of Zoology , " by himself ciations with the Nestorian Christians . and Dr. A. A. Gould ...
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... History of Europe " has been extensively read , and has brought its author into a world - wide reputation . It has been reprinted in America , and translated into many foreign languages . Sir Archibald Alison has published other historical ...
... History of Europe " has been extensively read , and has brought its author into a world - wide reputation . It has been reprinted in America , and translated into many foreign languages . Sir Archibald Alison has published other historical ...
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... History of Dis- senters . " He also made a collection of many thousand words not found in the English Dictionaries , most of them being added to the edition of Webster , pub- lished in 1854. He is the author of various other works of a ...
... History of Dis- senters . " He also made a collection of many thousand words not found in the English Dictionaries , most of them being added to the edition of Webster , pub- lished in 1854. He is the author of various other works of a ...
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