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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... those whofe Virtues , Parts , Learning , or even Vices , have preferved them from oblivion in any records , of whatever age , and in whatever language . This work will , therefore , naturally include a hiftory This viii TO PREFACE.
... those whofe Virtues , Parts , Learning , or even Vices , have preferved them from oblivion in any records , of whatever age , and in whatever language . This work will , therefore , naturally include a hiftory This viii TO PREFACE.
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... hiftory of the most remarkable and interefting transactions , an historical account of the pro- grefs of learning , and an abftract of all opi nions and principles by which the world has been influenced in all its extent and duration ...
... hiftory of the most remarkable and interefting transactions , an historical account of the pro- grefs of learning , and an abftract of all opi nions and principles by which the world has been influenced in all its extent and duration ...
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... 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. Thence he went to Holland , and afterwards to Berlin at the defire of ...
... 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. Thence he went to Holland , and afterwards to Berlin at the defire of ...
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... divorced : the archbishop , being against it , drew up his reafons , which the king thought fit to answer himself . See Saunderfan's Hiftory of king James , P. 390 . his III . P. 2828 Heylin's Life of Abp . Laud , p.83 . his ABBOT . 9.
... divorced : the archbishop , being against it , drew up his reafons , which the king thought fit to answer himself . See Saunderfan's Hiftory of king James , P. 390 . his III . P. 2828 Heylin's Life of Abp . Laud , p.83 . his ABBOT . 9.
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... The archbishop's will , and the ftatutes made by him for the regulation of his 9 hofpital at Guilford , with his character by the late Right Hon . Arthur Onflow , were published in 1778 . Church 66 66 66 ( 6 Church Hiftory , fays , ABBOT .
... The archbishop's will , and the ftatutes made by him for the regulation of his 9 hofpital at Guilford , with his character by the late Right Hon . Arthur Onflow , were published in 1778 . Church 66 66 66 ( 6 Church Hiftory , fays , ABBOT .
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