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... English annals , a man whose capacious mind em- braced all science . With a rare power of intuition , he not only pointed out the means by which knowledge might be enlarged , but seems to have perceived the re- mote bound to which it ...
... English annals , a man whose capacious mind em- braced all science . With a rare power of intuition , he not only pointed out the means by which knowledge might be enlarged , but seems to have perceived the re- mote bound to which it ...
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New-York Historical Society. The character a great English poet gave to Chancellor Bacon , is not wholly inapplicable to the Jewish king : " The greatest , wisest , meanest of mankind . " But the most important of all lessons is , the ...
New-York Historical Society. The character a great English poet gave to Chancellor Bacon , is not wholly inapplicable to the Jewish king : " The greatest , wisest , meanest of mankind . " But the most important of all lessons is , the ...
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... English monarchs expired with Elizabeth in 1603 . Henry the Fourth of France was assassinated in 1610 . In the same year the Moors were expelled from Spain . And , in the next , Gustavus Adolphus became king of Sweden . These events ...
... English monarchs expired with Elizabeth in 1603 . Henry the Fourth of France was assassinated in 1610 . In the same year the Moors were expelled from Spain . And , in the next , Gustavus Adolphus became king of Sweden . These events ...
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... English Gene- ral Biographical Dictionary , and Lempriere , have drawn their informa- tion from other sources , and do not mention the charge . I have been told that the great Biographical Dictionary , now publishing in Paris , gives no ...
... English Gene- ral Biographical Dictionary , and Lempriere , have drawn their informa- tion from other sources , and do not mention the charge . I have been told that the great Biographical Dictionary , now publishing in Paris , gives no ...
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... English authors , who have writ- ten on the origin and progress of the slave trade , make no mention whatever of Las Casas's concern in it , but impute the project entirely either to certain Flemish lords of the Spanish court , or to ...
... English authors , who have writ- ten on the origin and progress of the slave trade , make no mention whatever of Las Casas's concern in it , but impute the project entirely either to certain Flemish lords of the Spanish court , or to ...
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