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... received investiture at Constanti- nople in the February of that year , and Abdu - l - Aziz announced that he came to Egypt , not to exercise authority , but as a visitor to his friend ; but he took care to let it be seen that he was ...
... received investiture at Constanti- nople in the February of that year , and Abdu - l - Aziz announced that he came to Egypt , not to exercise authority , but as a visitor to his friend ; but he took care to let it be seen that he was ...
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... received the honour of knighthood . In 1863 he returned to England . He died at his residence , Upper Norwood , on the 27th of June , 1869 . * ABEL , FREDERICK AUGUSTUS , F.R.S. , a chemist who has devoted special attention to the ...
... received the honour of knighthood . In 1863 he returned to England . He died at his residence , Upper Norwood , on the 27th of June , 1869 . * ABEL , FREDERICK AUGUSTUS , F.R.S. , a chemist who has devoted special attention to the ...
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... received by the ecclesiastical autho- rities at Rome , as to be put into the ' Index Librorum Prohibi- torum ' in the beginning of the year 1610 ; a circumstance which , conjoined with the persecution and danger which he had to ...
... received by the ecclesiastical autho- rities at Rome , as to be put into the ' Index Librorum Prohibi- torum ' in the beginning of the year 1610 ; a circumstance which , conjoined with the persecution and danger which he had to ...
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... received by the universities of the Huguenots , with whose dispersion , after the revocation of the edict of Nantes , they rapidly spread through Holland and other countries of Protestant refuge . Amyraut forfeited nothing of personal ...
... received by the universities of the Huguenots , with whose dispersion , after the revocation of the edict of Nantes , they rapidly spread through Holland and other countries of Protestant refuge . Amyraut forfeited nothing of personal ...
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... received that he decided to stay there ; Austria , whose apartments in the Louvre were superbly decorated and there he died , in 1734. Angelis painted conversation pic- by him with statues , rilievi , garlands , carved framing for tures ...
... received that he decided to stay there ; Austria , whose apartments in the Louvre were superbly decorated and there he died , in 1734. Angelis painted conversation pic- by him with statues , rilievi , garlands , carved framing for tures ...
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