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See also:DOBRIZHOFFER, See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
MARTIN (1717-1791) , See also:Austrian See also:Roman See also:Catholic missionary, was See also:born at Gratz, in See also:Styria. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1736, and in 1749 proceeded to See also:Paraguay,where for eighteen years he worked devotedly first among the See also:Guaranis, and then among the See also:Abipones. Returning to See also:Europe on the See also:expulsion of the See also:Jesuits from See also:South See also:America, he settled at See also:Vienna, obtained the friendship of Maria See also:Theresa, survived the extinction of his See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, composed the See also:history of his See also:mission, and died on the 17th of See also:July 1791. The lively if rather garrulous See also:book on which his See also:title tp remembrance rests, appeared at Vienna in 1784, in the author's own Latin, and in a See also:German See also:translation by See also:Professor Krail of the university of Pest. Of its contents some See also:idea may be obtained from its extended title :—Historia de Abiponibus, Equestri Bellicosaque Paraguariae Natione, locupletata Copiosis Barbararum Gentium, Urbium, Fluminum, Ferarum, Amphibiarum, Insectorum, Serpentium praecipuorum, Piscium, Avium, A rborum, Plant arumaliarumque ejusdem Provinciae See also:Pro prietatum Observationibus. In 1822 there appeared in See also:London an See also:anonymous translation sometimes ascribed to See also:Southey, but really the See also:work of Sara See also:Coleridge; who had undertaken the task to defray the See also:college expenses of one of her See also:brothers.
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