A General Biographical Dictionary, 2. köideWhittaker and Company, 1835 |
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... English jesuit of great notoriety , was born in Nottinghamshire in 1555 , and was educated at Winchester school . He then went to Rome and entered into the Society of Jesus in 1575 , and became professor of philosophy and theology in ...
... English jesuit of great notoriety , was born in Nottinghamshire in 1555 , and was educated at Winchester school . He then went to Rome and entered into the Society of Jesus in 1575 , and became professor of philosophy and theology in ...
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... English portrait painter of considerable eminence in his pro- fession , though singularly diminutive in stature , his height not exceeding three feet ten inches . He was born in 1685 of humble parentage , and was placed as dwarf page in ...
... English portrait painter of considerable eminence in his pro- fession , though singularly diminutive in stature , his height not exceeding three feet ten inches . He was born in 1685 of humble parentage , and was placed as dwarf page in ...
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... English physician and experimental philoso- pher of the sixteenth century . He was born in 1540 at Colchester in Essex , of which borough his father was recorder . After hav- ing studied at Cambridge , and , according to Anthony Wood ...
... English physician and experimental philoso- pher of the sixteenth century . He was born in 1540 at Colchester in Essex , of which borough his father was recorder . After hav- ing studied at Cambridge , and , according to Anthony Wood ...
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... English gentle- next turned his attention to a scheme for ex - man , distinguished for his efforts towards the ploring the Arctic Seas , relative to which he published " A Discourse of a Discovery for a new passage to Cataia , " 1576 ...
... English gentle- next turned his attention to a scheme for ex - man , distinguished for his efforts towards the ploring the Arctic Seas , relative to which he published " A Discourse of a Discovery for a new passage to Cataia , " 1576 ...
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... English dramatic In 1718 he removed to Higham Ferrers , which writer , one of the many heroes of the Dunciad , again he quitted for the superintendence of a whom Boyer describes as a person of great more considerable meeting in the ...
... English dramatic In 1718 he removed to Higham Ferrers , which writer , one of the many heroes of the Dunciad , again he quitted for the superintendence of a whom Boyer describes as a person of great more considerable meeting in the ...
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