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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... foon engaged the attention of the great . When he was about eighteen , he went to Boffuin Hainault , to view the pieces of feveral masters : thence to Antwerp , where he married , and entered into the company of painters . He excelled ...
... foon engaged the attention of the great . When he was about eighteen , he went to Boffuin Hainault , to view the pieces of feveral masters : thence to Antwerp , where he married , and entered into the company of painters . He excelled ...
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... foon after his return , he was taken ill in London , and died in the parish of Mary - le - bon , Sept. 23 , 1727. He was firongly attached to the cause of king William , as appears by his elaborate defence of the Revolution , and his ...
... foon after his return , he was taken ill in London , and died in the parish of Mary - le - bon , Sept. 23 , 1727. He was firongly attached to the cause of king William , as appears by his elaborate defence of the Revolution , and his ...
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... foon after entered into holy orders , he became a celebrated preacher in the univerfity . In 1593 , he took his degree of B. D. and proceeded doctor in that faculty in May , 1597 ; and , in the month of September of the fame year , he ...
... foon after entered into holy orders , he became a celebrated preacher in the univerfity . In 1593 , he took his degree of B. D. and proceeded doctor in that faculty in May , 1597 ; and , in the month of September of the fame year , he ...
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... foon as it fhall be certainly understood that the coronation is past . " I am fatisfied in my confcience , that " the cause is juft , wherefore they have " rejected that proud and bloody man : " and fo much rather , because he hath ...
... foon as it fhall be certainly understood that the coronation is past . " I am fatisfied in my confcience , that " the cause is juft , wherefore they have " rejected that proud and bloody man : " and fo much rather , because he hath ...
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... foon became a celebrated preacher ; and to this talent he chiefly owed his preferment . Upon his first fermon at Worcester , he was chofen lecturer in that city , and foon after rector of All Saints in the fame place . John Stanhope ...
... foon became a celebrated preacher ; and to this talent he chiefly owed his preferment . Upon his first fermon at Worcester , he was chofen lecturer in that city , and foon after rector of All Saints in the fame place . John Stanhope ...
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