A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period ...W. Strahan, 1784 |
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... afterwards agent into France ; moirs , where he learned to negociate under thofe profound politi - P . 377 . cians , Henry IV . Villeroy , Rofny , Silleri , Jeannin , & c .; and he acquitted himself fo well , as to obtain their ...
... afterwards agent into France ; moirs , where he learned to negociate under thofe profound politi - P . 377 . cians , Henry IV . Villeroy , Rofny , Silleri , Jeannin , & c .; and he acquitted himself fo well , as to obtain their ...
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... afterwards to Berlin at the defire of count d'Efpenfe ; where he was made minifter of the French church , lately established by the elector of Brandenbourg . He refided in this city for many years , and was always in high favour with ...
... afterwards to Berlin at the defire of count d'Efpenfe ; where he was made minifter of the French church , lately established by the elector of Brandenbourg . He refided in this city for many years , and was always in high favour with ...
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... afterwards difcredited that work by his " Opening of the feven feals . " Befides what we have mentioned , he published feveral fingle fermoas , and fome ather little pieces , which met with general approbation . [ A ] His father Maurice ...
... afterwards difcredited that work by his " Opening of the feven feals . " Befides what we have mentioned , he published feveral fingle fermoas , and fome ather little pieces , which met with general approbation . [ A ] His father Maurice ...
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... afterwards the archbishop ; Robert their eldeft , and Maurice the youngest , who will be the fubjes of the two following articles . [ B ] King James had fuffered fo much by the spirit and power of the Prefbyte rians in Scotland , that ...
... afterwards the archbishop ; Robert their eldeft , and Maurice the youngest , who will be the fubjes of the two following articles . [ B ] King James had fuffered fo much by the spirit and power of the Prefbyte rians in Scotland , that ...
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... afterwards , he was tranflated to the fee of London , vacant by the death of Dr. Thomas Ravis . Upon the deceafe of Dr. Richard Bancroft , archbishop of Canter- bury , on Nov. 2 , 1610 , his majefty had a new opportunity of teftifying ...
... afterwards , he was tranflated to the fee of London , vacant by the death of Dr. Thomas Ravis . Upon the deceafe of Dr. Richard Bancroft , archbishop of Canter- bury , on Nov. 2 , 1610 , his majefty had a new opportunity of teftifying ...
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