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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Page ii
... give all due En- couragement , to a Work of this Nature , which may be of public Ufe and Benefit , are graciously pleafed to condefcend to Their Request ; And We do , therefore , by thefe Prefents ( fo far as may be agreeable to the ...
... give all due En- couragement , to a Work of this Nature , which may be of public Ufe and Benefit , are graciously pleafed to condefcend to Their Request ; And We do , therefore , by thefe Prefents ( fo far as may be agreeable to the ...
Page 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.
... 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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... give too much credit to his invectives ; for he informs us , that there was an irreconcileable enmity betwixt his father and Aarfens . de Profef- Florence AARSENS , or AERSENS ( PETER ) , called by the Baldinetti Italians Pietro Longo ...
... give too much credit to his invectives ; for he informs us , that there was an irreconcileable enmity betwixt his father and Aarfens . de Profef- Florence AARSENS , or AERSENS ( PETER ) , called by the Baldinetti Italians Pietro Longo ...
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... give you my " judgment on the proceedings in the " convocation , as you will call it ; and " both as rex in folio , and unus gregis in " ecclefia , I am doubly concerned . My " title to the crown nobody calls in " queftion , but they ...
... give you my " judgment on the proceedings in the " convocation , as you will call it ; and " both as rex in folio , and unus gregis in " ecclefia , I am doubly concerned . My " title to the crown nobody calls in " queftion , but they ...
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... give his majesty a better opinion of the Remonftrants , as they then began to be called : we have a very fingular account of the man , and of his negotiation , in a letter from the archbishop to fir Ralph Ib . p . 459. Winwood . In the ...
... give his majesty a better opinion of the Remonftrants , as they then began to be called : we have a very fingular account of the man , and of his negotiation , in a letter from the archbishop to fir Ralph Ib . p . 459. Winwood . In the ...
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