Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography, Volume 4Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1830 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 15
... March 8 , 1728. During his lifetime , he had caused his monument to be erect- ed in the church of Santa Maria Mag- giore , with the inscription - I . M. C. P. ARC . C. ( Joannes Marius Crescimbenius , Pastorum Arcadum Custos ) , and ...
... March 8 , 1728. During his lifetime , he had caused his monument to be erect- ed in the church of Santa Maria Mag- giore , with the inscription - I . M. C. P. ARC . C. ( Joannes Marius Crescimbenius , Pastorum Arcadum Custos ) , and ...
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... March 10 , 1771 , was devoted , from his earliest youth , to the an- cient classics . He studied at the univer- sities of Marburg and Jena , and after wards lived in and near Giessen , occupied with the study of the Greek historians ...
... March 10 , 1771 , was devoted , from his earliest youth , to the an- cient classics . He studied at the univer- sities of Marburg and Jena , and after wards lived in and near Giessen , occupied with the study of the Greek historians ...
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... March , the female lays 5 or 6 pale- to that of the other . The plumage is of a green and bluish eggs , speckled with very very glossy black , with some reflections numerous spots and touches of a darker of bluish purple on the back ...
... March , the female lays 5 or 6 pale- to that of the other . The plumage is of a green and bluish eggs , speckled with very very glossy black , with some reflections numerous spots and touches of a darker of bluish purple on the back ...
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... march regularly along the corn- rows , drawing up the grain , pulling skil- fully by the shoot , and then swallowing the germinating corn . Among the most successful experiments made to prevent the crows from doing this mischief is that ...
... march regularly along the corn- rows , drawing up the grain , pulling skil- fully by the shoot , and then swallowing the germinating corn . Among the most successful experiments made to prevent the crows from doing this mischief is that ...
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... march , and partly by the sword of the sul- tan of Iconium . The Genoese , and other commercial nations , undertook several ex- peditions by sea . The second great and regularly conducted crusade was occa- sioned by the loss of Edessa ...
... march , and partly by the sword of the sul- tan of Iconium . The Genoese , and other commercial nations , undertook several ex- peditions by sea . The second great and regularly conducted crusade was occa- sioned by the loss of Edessa ...
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