Meaning of vice-roi | Babel Free

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Papillon nord-américain de nom scientifique Limenitis archippus dont les ailes sont orange avec des nervures noires et une marge noire marquée d'une ligne de points blancs.

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“Among theſe are reckoned, a Hiſtory (in good repute) of the great men of Sicily, Palermo, 1704, 4to. and a Hiſtory of the Vice-rois of Sicily, ibid. 1697, folio.”

“The vice-roi of Italy with a central army also of 80,000 men, composed of his own⟳ corps and of that of Saint-Cyr, was to throw⟳ himself between the two Russian armies, and to cut⟳ off their communication.”

“The prosperity of Antwerp, once so great, began to decline⟳ under the tyranny of the cruel Duke of Alva, the vice-roi of Philip II of Spain.”

“You find⟳, however, a curious collection of portraits of all the vice-rois and first presidents of Peru, from Columbus down to the Grand-Marshal Lamar.”

“And in the letters to the vice-rois, although she used all the humble phraseology of a language which is full of such phrases, yet there is an unbending pride and independence behind it all.”

“He was the vice-roi of Hicem and absolutely refused to be drawn into any lengthy discussion.”

“The bribee was the Vice-roi of Liang-kwang (Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces), the bribe was 20,000 (or 200,000) ducats; […]”

“His continued struggle⟳ in the Law Courts, his thought-provoking arguments in the press⟳, his petitions to the Governor, to the Secretary of State for the colonies, and sometimes to the Vice-Roi of India were all his Satyagraha strategy, which he had been experimenting in this country.”

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