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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... excellent turn for political negotiations : but whilft Du Maurier inveighs fo warmly against this statesman , he lets us into a circumftance , which may teach us not to give too much credit to his invectives ; for he informs us , that ...
... excellent turn for political negotiations : but whilft Du Maurier inveighs fo warmly against this statesman , he lets us into a circumftance , which may teach us not to give too much credit to his invectives ; for he informs us , that ...
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... excellent father , famous for his learning and " erudition , the prince of the learned , " the most excellent of thofe who moft " excel , the example of his times , the " phonix of his age , the glory of wife 66 men , the doctor ...
... excellent father , famous for his learning and " erudition , the prince of the learned , " the most excellent of thofe who moft " excel , the example of his times , the " phonix of his age , the glory of wife 66 men , the doctor ...
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... excellent advice to authors ; but his treatise of Method [ B ] , a valuable piece , and publifhed as an effay , is not inferted . He wrote alfo a work in Italian , on the Manner of fortifying Ci- ties , which he tranflated into Latin ...
... excellent advice to authors ; but his treatise of Method [ B ] , a valuable piece , and publifhed as an effay , is not inferted . He wrote alfo a work in Italian , on the Manner of fortifying Ci- ties , which he tranflated into Latin ...
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... excellent perfons , rather than fay a very little , or ufe thofe trite expref- " fions ; He was born , be died . Yet this " deficiency may be fupplied , if good men and lovers of their country will " contribute their affiftance to the ...
... excellent perfons , rather than fay a very little , or ufe thofe trite expref- " fions ; He was born , be died . Yet this " deficiency may be fupplied , if good men and lovers of their country will " contribute their affiftance to the ...
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... excellent poet having received a letter from Steele , defiring him to write an ode , as of a cheerful dying fpi- rit , confitting of two or three ftanzas , for mufic , he complied with his request " not fo abfolutely infpiration , but ...
... excellent poet having received a letter from Steele , defiring him to write an ode , as of a cheerful dying fpi- rit , confitting of two or three ftanzas , for mufic , he complied with his request " not fo abfolutely infpiration , but ...
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