The Columbian Cyclopedia, Volume 4Garretson, Cox, 1897 |
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... tion to its subject and the writer's disregard of method . The Fragment procured him the acquaintance of Lord Lansdowne , in whose society at Bowood he afterwards passed perhaps the most agreeable hours of his life . It was in the ...
... tion to its subject and the writer's disregard of method . The Fragment procured him the acquaintance of Lord Lansdowne , in whose society at Bowood he afterwards passed perhaps the most agreeable hours of his life . It was in the ...
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... tion of Franklin Pierce , and opposed particularly the Kansas - Nebraska bill , which , however , he failed to de- feat . Not being returned to congress at the next election he retired from politics for two years , and in 1856 was a ...
... tion of Franklin Pierce , and opposed particularly the Kansas - Nebraska bill , which , however , he failed to de- feat . Not being returned to congress at the next election he retired from politics for two years , and in 1856 was a ...
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... tion , he , 1804 , enclosed some of his verses to M. Lucien Bonaparte , with a letter explaining his circumstances , and with a request for assistance -- the one solitary instance of solicitation during a long life of independence ...
... tion , he , 1804 , enclosed some of his verses to M. Lucien Bonaparte , with a letter explaining his circumstances , and with a request for assistance -- the one solitary instance of solicitation during a long life of independence ...
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... tion to the care and protection of animal life , unexampled in history , the idea having occurred to him on account of cruelties to dumb creatures which he had witnessed in Eu- rope . He framed a bill and secured its passage through the ...
... tion to the care and protection of animal life , unexampled in history , the idea having occurred to him on account of cruelties to dumb creatures which he had witnessed in Eu- rope . He framed a bill and secured its passage through the ...
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... tion as an oriental scholar by the publication of an Arabic poem of Szafieddin of Hilla ( Leip . 1816 ) . But his greatest achievements were in Syriac literature , on which he pub- lished several pamphlets , expository and critical ...
... tion as an oriental scholar by the publication of an Arabic poem of Szafieddin of Hilla ( Leip . 1816 ) . But his greatest achievements were in Syriac literature , on which he pub- lished several pamphlets , expository and critical ...
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