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Off the South-East end of Legendre Island the sea is very full of reefs and dry rocks, but between Hauy and Delambre Islands there is a safe channel of nine and ten fathoms deep.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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For the sake of improvement he visited Paris, and for several years was a pupil of the celebrated Hauy.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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Some of its matter recalls the discoveries made at the end of the eighteenth century, as those of Lavoisier and Hauy, it also shows a correct understanding of fossils.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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But, even then, Hauy and his blind school was not forgotten; and his appropriations were regularly paid him by the different powers that ruled the hour in Paris; until at last the Government became totally brankrupt; and the assignats, in which he was paid, would buy neither food nor clothing.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863 Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives 1862
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After the French Revolution, the Czar of Russia induced Hauy to go to St. Petersburg and open a school for the blind of his dominions.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863 Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives 1862
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Sciences, he had increased his number of pupils to 24, and was called to show their proficiency before the King and Royal Family at Versailles; who were so much pleased, that the King ordered funds to be appropriated for the education of blind pupils under Hauy.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863 Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives 1862
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Everything went on flourishing with Hauy and his pupils, until the French Revolution swept like a besom of destruction over the land, carrying ruin, desolation and death to thousands of the best homes of France, and flooding the streets of Paris with blood.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863 Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives 1862
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Of like humble origin were Hauy, the mineralogist, who was the son of a weaver of
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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Fassa in Tyrol, forms, with the chabasie of Hauy, the genus Cubicit of
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If this body were, for instance, a branch or trunk of a tree, the stone will have at its surface its knots and asperities; but within, it will present all the characters of a true stone; it will be no more, to use the language of Hauy, than the statue of the substance that it has replaced.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821
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