Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 2Lippincott, 1873 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Paris , cast in 1300 , weighed 15,000 pounds ; another Paris bell , cast in 1472 , weighed 25,000 ; the famous bell of Rouen , cast in 1501 , weighed 36,364 pounds . The largest bell in the world is the Great Bell or Monarch of Moscow ...
... Paris , cast in 1300 , weighed 15,000 pounds ; another Paris bell , cast in 1472 , weighed 25,000 ; the famous bell of Rouen , cast in 1501 , weighed 36,364 pounds . The largest bell in the world is the Great Bell or Monarch of Moscow ...
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... Paris , and that he was that he was a professor in the university , and an employed in a diplomatic capacity by Queen Mary , and also by her son , who conferred on him the first work , entitled Ciceronis Princeps , & c . , was pub ...
... Paris , and that he was that he was a professor in the university , and an employed in a diplomatic capacity by Queen Mary , and also by her son , who conferred on him the first work , entitled Ciceronis Princeps , & c . , was pub ...
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... Paris , and enclosed by the new fortifications . It has manu- factories of cashmeres , varnished leather , articles of polished steel , chemical stuffs , & c . There are springs at B. which have supplied Paris with water from a very ...
... Paris , and enclosed by the new fortifications . It has manu- factories of cashmeres , varnished leather , articles of polished steel , chemical stuffs , & c . There are springs at B. which have supplied Paris with water from a very ...
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... Paris , 18th March 1826 , and educated at Rochefort , in the Naval School . In the French expedition against Tamatave , in 1945 , he gave proof of so much courage and presence of mind , that the Cross of the Legion of Honour was ...
... Paris , 18th March 1826 , and educated at Rochefort , in the Naval School . In the French expedition against Tamatave , in 1945 , he gave proof of so much courage and presence of mind , that the Cross of the Legion of Honour was ...
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... Paris . fine conventual buildings at St Maur on the Loire , were destroyed during the revolutionary troubles ... ( Paris , 1770 ) ; Chronica de la Order de San Benito ( Salamanca , 1609-1512 , 7 vols . fol . ) ; Regula S. Benedicti et ...
... Paris . fine conventual buildings at St Maur on the Loire , were destroyed during the revolutionary troubles ... ( Paris , 1770 ) ; Chronica de la Order de San Benito ( Salamanca , 1609-1512 , 7 vols . fol . ) ; Regula S. Benedicti et ...
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