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  • Bustamante's minister of war and marine, José Antonio Facio, paid a Genoese captain fifty thousand pesos to invite Guerrero aboard his vessel, then anchored in Acapulco.

    Vicente Guerrero: a study in triumph and tragedy (1782–1831) 2008

  • Bustamante's minister of war and marine, José Antonio Facio, paid a Genoese captain fifty thousand pesos to invite Guerrero aboard his vessel, then anchored in Acapulco.

    Vicente Guerrero: a study in triumph and tragedy (1782–1831) 2008

  • Bustamante's minister of war and marine, José Antonio Facio, paid a Genoese captain fifty thousand pesos to invite Guerrero aboard his vessel, then anchored in Acapulco.

    Vicente Guerrero: a study in triumph and tragedy (1782–1831) 2008

  • Let it be not imagined by any reader that the rather sinister educational institution depicted in this fantasy is meant to resemble the author's alma mater, for the spirit of St. John's is one in bitter enmity to tyranny; the task of St. John's is to make free men out of youths by means of books and balanced judgment: Facio liberos ex liberis libris libraque.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • Manetti was apparently prompted by King Alfonso of Naples to write the treatise because Facio had dedicated his to

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968

  • Facio did so, and his On the Excel - lence of Man (De excellentia hominis) appeared in

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968

  • Da Barga urged Facio to take this treatise and add the polish and elegance a humanist could give it, and thus produce the treatise on the dignity of man that Innocent III had promised and never completed.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968

  • What the facts were we shall probably never know; but at least poor Facio lost the glory due him for his invention.

    Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • Therefore Facio, as the Swiss was called, proceeded to make a watch after this idea and in 1703 obtained a patent on it good for fourteen years.

    Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • There were others termed innominate because they had no special names: these were summed up in the four formula: Do, ut des; Do, ut facias; Facio, ut des; and

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

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