The English Cyclopaedia, Część 3,Tom 5Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans, 1867 |
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... engaged on a similar work entitled , ' Antiquités Russes , ' to prove by scattered passages from the sagas that the Russian monarchy was founded by Scandinavian sea - rovers . In his ' Gronlands Historiske Mindesmærker , ' or ...
... engaged on a similar work entitled , ' Antiquités Russes , ' to prove by scattered passages from the sagas that the Russian monarchy was founded by Scandinavian sea - rovers . In his ' Gronlands Historiske Mindesmærker , ' or ...
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... engaged at court to accompany it himself , subscribed 2000. This attempt also proved abortive , and Gilbert perished on his return in a storm in which his ship foundered . Raleigh , undismayed , obtained for himself in 1584 a patent ...
... engaged at court to accompany it himself , subscribed 2000. This attempt also proved abortive , and Gilbert perished on his return in a storm in which his ship foundered . Raleigh , undismayed , obtained for himself in 1584 a patent ...
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... engaged as a clerk in a cloth warehouse in London , in which capacity he continued till 1757-58 , when his predilection for other pursuits led him to bind himself for four years to a working mathematical and philosophical instrument ...
... engaged as a clerk in a cloth warehouse in London , in which capacity he continued till 1757-58 , when his predilection for other pursuits led him to bind himself for four years to a working mathematical and philosophical instrument ...
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... engaged in preparing for the press a treatise on geology , containing the substance of his lectures during the five years from 1836 till 1841 , when he was unexpectedly carried off by illness , April 23 , 1841 , in the sixty - sixth ...
... engaged in preparing for the press a treatise on geology , containing the substance of his lectures during the five years from 1836 till 1841 , when he was unexpectedly carried off by illness , April 23 , 1841 , in the sixty - sixth ...
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... engaged in the preparation of an Armenian Dictionary , an Italian , Low Ger- man , and English Grammar . In 1829 he was appointed professor of oriental languages and chief librarian of the university library . Henceforth his attention ...
... engaged in the preparation of an Armenian Dictionary , an Italian , Low Ger- man , and English Grammar . In 1829 he was appointed professor of oriental languages and chief librarian of the university library . Henceforth his attention ...
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