The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Том 10F. Finley & Company, 1895 |
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... interest in the scientific world . The Grand Duke of Tuscany observed the new planets along with Galileo at Pisa , and induced him to resign his chair at Padua and remove to Florence , with a yearly salary of a thousand florins . In ...
... interest in the scientific world . The Grand Duke of Tuscany observed the new planets along with Galileo at Pisa , and induced him to resign his chair at Padua and remove to Florence , with a yearly salary of a thousand florins . In ...
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... interest out of his early studies , first for the medical profession and , later , for the Church . In his Descent of Man he insists on the advantage to the community at large of the inheritance of wealth , as enabling the most cultured ...
... interest out of his early studies , first for the medical profession and , later , for the Church . In his Descent of Man he insists on the advantage to the community at large of the inheritance of wealth , as enabling the most cultured ...
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... interest- ing letters , written in the French patois of the Romansch language , were translated in 1802 , under the title of " Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters . " He says : " The Parliament being summoned to assemble at ...
... interest- ing letters , written in the French patois of the Romansch language , were translated in 1802 , under the title of " Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters . " He says : " The Parliament being summoned to assemble at ...
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... interest that his countrymen . gloried in them ; and yet their author experienced little but suffering and sorrow . He was most shamefully neglected by the grandees of his age . Now his name is famous every- where . To many their ...
... interest that his countrymen . gloried in them ; and yet their author experienced little but suffering and sorrow . He was most shamefully neglected by the grandees of his age . Now his name is famous every- where . To many their ...
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... interest to him . The distinguished men at the University of Coimbra did not appreciate him , nor did he even leave with their friendship . There are many accounts of his varied gifts , while many jealousies followed in the train . At ...
... interest to him . The distinguished men at the University of Coimbra did not appreciate him , nor did he even leave with their friendship . There are many accounts of his varied gifts , while many jealousies followed in the train . At ...
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Страница 249 - ... political foes. Mr. Douglas achieved a victory scarcely less wonderful when, in 1854, against the secret desires of a strong administration, against the wise counsel of the older chiefs, against the conservative instincts and even the moral sense of the country, he forced a reluctant Congress into a repeal of the Missouri compromise.
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Страница 279 - The new South is enamored of her new work. Her soul is stirred with the breath" of a new life. The light of a grander day is falling fair on her face. She is thrilling with the consciousness of growing power and prosperity. As she stands upright, fullstatured and equal among the people » of the earth, breathing the keen air and looking out upon the expanded horizon, she understands that her emancipation came because through the inscrutable wisdom of God her honest purpose was crossed, and her brave...