Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Tom 5Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... death - song of the pirate Ragnar Lodbrok , said to have been sung by him when , being taken prisoner by Ella , king of Northumberland , he was shut up in a barrel with snakes , and concluding with the famous line " Laughing will I die ...
... death - song of the pirate Ragnar Lodbrok , said to have been sung by him when , being taken prisoner by Ella , king of Northumberland , he was shut up in a barrel with snakes , and concluding with the famous line " Laughing will I die ...
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... death of the prime minister , who had been overthrown by an intrigue within the palace , and afterwards put to death by the Sultan's orders . But the behaviour of Redschid Pasha was so circumspect as to baffle the designs of his enemies ...
... death of the prime minister , who had been overthrown by an intrigue within the palace , and afterwards put to death by the Sultan's orders . But the behaviour of Redschid Pasha was so circumspect as to baffle the designs of his enemies ...
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... death , which is now the most interesting of his works . It contained two tables of natural sines , one to a radius 6,000,000 , the other to a radius 10,000,000 , and by their means all the cases of plane and spherical triangles were ...
... death , which is now the most interesting of his works . It contained two tables of natural sines , one to a radius 6,000,000 , the other to a radius 10,000,000 , and by their means all the cases of plane and spherical triangles were ...
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... death by Christ . God . Grüner , 8vo , Halæ , 1776. 2 , ' Abilfedæ Opus Geogra- phicum . ' This translation of the Geography of Abdulfeda is to be found in Büsching's ' Magazin für die neue Historie und Geographie , ' vols . iv . and v ...
... death by Christ . God . Grüner , 8vo , Halæ , 1776. 2 , ' Abilfedæ Opus Geogra- phicum . ' This translation of the Geography of Abdulfeda is to be found in Büsching's ' Magazin für die neue Historie und Geographie , ' vols . iv . and v ...
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... death of Queen Joanna II . in 1435 , Réné laid claim to the kingdom of Sicily and Naples , but he had a powerful rival in Alfonso of Aragon . [ ALFONSO V .; JOAN II . ] Réné was then a prisoner of the Duke of Burgundy , who opposed his ...
... death of Queen Joanna II . in 1435 , Réné laid claim to the kingdom of Sicily and Naples , but he had a powerful rival in Alfonso of Aragon . [ ALFONSO V .; JOAN II . ] Réné was then a prisoner of the Duke of Burgundy , who opposed his ...
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