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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... born in Great Britain and Ireland ; and of these the chief alone are felected , though many others have a degree of eminence fufficient to render them objects of general curiosity . The Athena Oxonienfes is written upon a plan ftill ...
... born in Great Britain and Ireland ; and of these the chief alone are felected , though many others have a degree of eminence fufficient to render them objects of general curiosity . The Athena Oxonienfes is written upon a plan ftill ...
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... born at Amfterdam in 1519. His father , who fori , & c . was a stocking - maker , meant to train him in his own tom . i . way ; but the mother , finding in him an înclination towards printed at painting , was refolved that her fon ...
... born at Amfterdam in 1519. His father , who fori , & c . was a stocking - maker , meant to train him in his own tom . i . way ; but the mother , finding in him an înclination towards printed at painting , was refolved that her fon ...
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... born at Hay , in Berne , in the year 1658 , as Niceron affirms in his Hiftory of illuftrious men , though fome fay he was born in 1654. He ftudied at Saumur , at Paris , and at Sedan ; at which laft place he took the degree of D. D. ...
... born at Hay , in Berne , in the year 1658 , as Niceron affirms in his Hiftory of illuftrious men , though fome fay he was born in 1654. He ftudied at Saumur , at Paris , and at Sedan ; at which laft place he took the degree of D. D. ...
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... born Oct. 29 , 1562 , at Guilford , in Surrey [ A ] . He received B 3 10 of abp Laud , fol . 1688. p . I. [ A ] The account of his writings , in the order they were published , is as follows : " Sermons fur divers textes de " l'Ecriture ...
... born Oct. 29 , 1562 , at Guilford , in Surrey [ A ] . He received B 3 10 of abp Laud , fol . 1688. p . I. [ A ] The account of his writings , in the order they were published , is as follows : " Sermons fur divers textes de " l'Ecriture ...
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... born at Guilford , and bred to trade in London , where Britannica . he became an eminent merchant , and diftinguifhed himself in the direction of the affairs of the Eaft India company , and in the most public - fpirited extenfion of the ...
... born at Guilford , and bred to trade in London , where Britannica . he became an eminent merchant , and diftinguifhed himself in the direction of the affairs of the Eaft India company , and in the most public - fpirited extenfion of the ...
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