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Salomon   /sˈæləmən/   Listen
Salomon

noun
1.
American financier and American Revolutionary War patriot who helped fund the army during the American Revolution (1740?-1785).  Synonym: Haym Salomon.






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"Salomon" Quotes from Famous Books



... [240] Salomon Schweigger, Ein newe Reyssbeschreibung auss Deutschland nach Constantinopel pp. 119-20, Chaplain for more than three years in Constantinople, at the Legation of the Holy Roman Empire, 1581. He gives the inscription on the sarcophagus: [Greek: ...
— Byzantine Churches in Constantinople - Their History and Architecture • Alexander Van Millingen

... first meeting with Mrs. Piozzi since her marriage. It occurred at one of Salomon's celebrated concerts, where the doctor, with surprise, perceived Piozzi among the audience, not knowing that he had returned from Italy. He entered into a cordial conversation with the Signor, and inquired after his wife. "Piozzi, turning ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay

... (Mademoiselle Merlin de), under the Restoration, a kind of dowager and canoness at Tours; in company with Mesdames Pauline Salomon de Villenoix and de Listomere, upheld, received and welcomed Francois Birotteau. [The ...
— Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z • Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe

... called "science" will | distort Bacon's meaning and achievement. | | Note: if a scholar's interpretation of | Bacon's Science does not square with the | detailed description of the application of | Bacon's science in "Salomon's House" in | NEW ATLANTIS, it should be viewed with | scepticism. | | Bacon's science is more applicable to what | we call post-modern neo-hermeutics than to | Newtonian mechanics. (Patrick Heelan is | good on post-modern neo-hermeneutics.) | | Consider: why did ...
— Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature • Sir Francis Bacon

... beware whome they condemne: For it is as great a crime (M33) (as SALOMON sayeth,) To condemne the innocent, as to let the guiltie escape free; neither ought the report of any one infamous person, be admitted for a sufficient proofe, which can stand ...
— Daemonologie. • King James I

... reperiuntur multi lapides praeciositatis immensae et metalli grani carissimi, nec non et auri mineriae, multumque descendit in eo natans lignum Aloes ex Paradiso, quod rebus mirae virtutis inserit Salomon in Canticis. ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 9 - Asia, Part 2 • Richard Hakluyt



Words linked to "Salomon" :   financier, moneyman, Haym Salomon, American Revolutionary leader



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