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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... EDITION , IN TWELVE VOLUMES , GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED . VOL . I. LONDON , PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN , T. PAYNE AND SON , J. RIVING- TON AND SONS , W. OWEN , B. WHITE , T. AND W. LOWNDES , B. LAW , J. ROBSON , J. JOHNSON , G ROBINSON ...
... EDITION , IN TWELVE VOLUMES , GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED . VOL . I. LONDON , PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN , T. PAYNE AND SON , J. RIVING- TON AND SONS , W. OWEN , B. WHITE , T. AND W. LOWNDES , B. LAW , J. ROBSON , J. JOHNSON , G ROBINSON ...
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... EDITION , 1761 , A S it is unneceffary to fhew the usefulness of an accurate historical account of fuch perfons and facts as have been the objects of public attention in all ages and nations ; no- thing more can be expected in a preface ...
... EDITION , 1761 , A S it is unneceffary to fhew the usefulness of an accurate historical account of fuch perfons and facts as have been the objects of public attention in all ages and nations ; no- thing more can be expected in a preface ...
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... : that is , its accounts of men are too general , too fuperficial , and indeed too short , to give fatisfaction . We would not have the reader to conclude from this , that it is any part a 2 to THE FORMER EDITION . vii.
... : that is , its accounts of men are too general , too fuperficial , and indeed too short , to give fatisfaction . We would not have the reader to conclude from this , that it is any part a 2 to THE FORMER EDITION . vii.
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... relation to our defign . For the lives of authors , we have had recourse to their works ; and for the lives of others , to the best memoirs that are extant concerning them . We fhall , how- 7 that THE FORMER EDITION . ix.
... relation to our defign . For the lives of authors , we have had recourse to their works ; and for the lives of others , to the best memoirs that are extant concerning them . We fhall , how- 7 that THE FORMER EDITION . ix.
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... edition . With this view , the whole work has been atten- tively revised ; fome fuperfluities retrenched ; not a few of the former articles new written ; and more than SIX HUNDRED NEW LIVES added , without increasing the number of the ...
... edition . With this view , the whole work has been atten- tively revised ; fome fuperfluities retrenched ; not a few of the former articles new written ; and more than SIX HUNDRED NEW LIVES added , without increasing the number of the ...
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