A

NEW AND GENERAL

BIOGRAPHICAL

DICTIONARY;

CONTAINING

AN HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIVES and WRITINGS

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OF THE

Moft Eminent Persons

IN EVERY NATION;

PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH AND IRISH;

From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the prefent Period.

WHIPEIN

Their remarkable ACTIONS and SUFFERINGS,

Their VIRTUES, FARTS, and LEARNING,

ARE, ACCURATELY DISPLAYED.

With a CATALOGUE of their LITERARY PRODUCTIONS.

A NEW EDITION, IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES,

GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed for G. G. and J. ROBINSON, J. JOHNSON, J. NICHOLS, J. SEWELL,

H. L. GARDNER, F. and C. RIVINGTON, W. OTRIDGE and Son,

G. NICOL, E. NEWBERY, HOOKHAM and CARPENTER,

R. FAULDER, W. CHAPMAN and SON, J. DEIGHTON,

D. WALKER, J. ANDERSON, T. PAYNE, J. LOWNDES,

P. MACQUEEN, J. WALKER, T. EGERTON, T.
CADELL, jun. and W. DAVIES, R. EDWARDS,
VERNOR and HOOD, J. NUNN, MURRAY
and HIGHLEY, T. N. LONGMAN, LEE
and HURST, and J. WHITE.

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