Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volum 14Francis Lieber Lea & Blanchard, 1850 |
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... distinguished painter of battle scenes , was born at Nordlingen , in Bavaria , in 1786. He was destined by his father , who was a confectioner , to fol- low his own vocation : but his talent for VOL . XIV . - 3 and spirited delineations ...
... distinguished painter of battle scenes , was born at Nordlingen , in Bavaria , in 1786. He was destined by his father , who was a confectioner , to fol- low his own vocation : but his talent for VOL . XIV . - 3 and spirited delineations ...
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... distinguished men of letters whom it has produced . Adam Afzelius , who was born in October 1750 , and died in January 1837 , was the last surviving pupil of Linnæus . In 1777 , he was appointed teacher ( docent ) of Oriental Literature ...
... distinguished men of letters whom it has produced . Adam Afzelius , who was born in October 1750 , and died in January 1837 , was the last surviving pupil of Linnæus . In 1777 , he was appointed teacher ( docent ) of Oriental Literature ...
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... distinguished beyond all other naturalists , in his peculiar province of investigation . But besides , many papers on the subject of the algæ , which were communicated by him to dif- ferent learned societies , he is the author of an ...
... distinguished beyond all other naturalists , in his peculiar province of investigation . But besides , many papers on the subject of the algæ , which were communicated by him to dif- ferent learned societies , he is the author of an ...
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... distinguished himself on various occa- quite as much zeal in support of the mea- sions during the war . But notwithstand - sures of the moderados , as he had ever ing his services in the cause of Ferdinand , on the return of that ...
... distinguished himself on various occa- quite as much zeal in support of the mea- sions during the war . But notwithstand - sures of the moderados , as he had ever ing his services in the cause of Ferdinand , on the return of that ...
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... distinguished South Carolina family of that name , who served as a captain in the war of the Revolution , and was the pro- prietor of a plantation at Waccamaw , near Georgetown , in that state , where the sub- ject of this notice was ...
... distinguished South Carolina family of that name , who served as a captain in the war of the Revolution , and was the pro- prietor of a plantation at Waccamaw , near Georgetown , in that state , where the sub- ject of this notice was ...
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