Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 5J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Royal Academy , French Soldiers Playing Cards in a Cabaret . ' His Entering Church , ' as well as The Return from a Christening , ' which received a prize of £ 50 from the British Institution , and others of his early pictures , were ...
... Royal Academy , French Soldiers Playing Cards in a Cabaret . ' His Entering Church , ' as well as The Return from a Christening , ' which received a prize of £ 50 from the British Institution , and others of his early pictures , were ...
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... Royal Scottish Academy in 1827 , was elected in 1841 an Associate , in 1850 an Academician of the London Royal Academy ; and on the death of Sir William Allan , President of the Royal Scottish Academy , when the honour of knighthood was ...
... Royal Scottish Academy in 1827 , was elected in 1841 an Associate , in 1850 an Academician of the London Royal Academy ; and on the death of Sir William Allan , President of the Royal Scottish Academy , when the honour of knighthood was ...
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... royal families of Europe . It has been slow to recognise political changes , and for years after the French Revolution , continued to print under the head of France , ' Louis XVII . as the reigning monarch . It was not until Napoleon ...
... royal families of Europe . It has been slow to recognise political changes , and for years after the French Revolution , continued to print under the head of France , ' Louis XVII . as the reigning monarch . It was not until Napoleon ...
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... royal domain in France about the middle of the 12th century . The Normans had settled in the north of France more than a century before this , and had applied their talents and the fruit of their conquests to the building of splendid ...
... royal domain in France about the middle of the 12th century . The Normans had settled in the north of France more than a century before this , and had applied their talents and the fruit of their conquests to the building of splendid ...
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... royal domain soon accomplished this step , and the new style sprung up and progressed with the most astonishing rapidity . The earliest example we have of the fully developed Gothic style is the Cathedral of St Denis , in which are ...
... royal domain soon accomplished this step , and the new style sprung up and progressed with the most astonishing rapidity . The earliest example we have of the fully developed Gothic style is the Cathedral of St Denis , in which are ...
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