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... a rival and successful competitor; and his rival, instead of being some unknown, obscure gardener, was the godson of Mynheer Cornelius de Witt, that ... ...y, a celebrity. Boxtel, as the reader may see, was not possessed of the spirit of Porus, who, on being conquered by Alexander, 45 Dumas consoled hims...
...rnity of which was likely at one time to have formed a controversy of some celebrity, for the ingenuity with which some instruc- tors of the public ga... ...; nor was there a main fought in York- shire, the feeders being persons of celebrity, at which he was not to be seen if business permitted. But though...
...stem of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that cen- tral luminary to which ...
...Excerpt: Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that central luminary to which European doctors do homage, practiced surgery for a long time before he took up medicine. His earliest studies were guided by one of the greatest of Fre...