Chambers's Biographical Dictionary: The Great of All Times and Nations

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David Patrick, Francis Hindes Groome
Lippincott, 1898 - 1002 頁

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第 229 頁 - He organised anew the colonies in Canada, Martinique, and St Domingo, and founded others at Cayenne and Madagascar. He found France with a few old rotten ships, and in a few years had provided her with one of the strongest fleets in the world, with well-equipped arsenals and a splendid body of seamen. Colbert improved trie civil code, introduced a marine code of laws, and drew up the so-called Code Noir for the colonies.
第 209 頁 - Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides...
第 212 頁 - The Bible, I say, the Bible only is the religion of protestants.
第 122 頁 - Next year, however, he was chief commander at the great victory of Pavia, in which Francis I was taken prisoner. But Charles V distrusted him, though he made him Duke of Milan and Spanish commander in Northern Italy. Along with...
第 311 頁 - ... besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea.
第 37 頁 - He first established the truth, that a body plunged in a fluid loses as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of an equal volume of the fluid!
第 17 頁 - He patronised the Pretender, to annoy England, and the French Protestants, to annoy Louis. He sought to unite Peter of Russia and Charles XII. with him, to plunge Austria into a war with the Turks, to stir up an insurrection in Hungary, and...
第 77 頁 - I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last; ay, sir, and though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.
第 127 頁 - As a reward, he was made Permanent President of the Council of State and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a grant of estates worth £2,000 per annum. His 'stiff republicanism' estranged him from Oliver Cromwell.

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