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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... particular and fo accurate in our ac- counts , as to convey a sufficient knowledge of the perfons we have recorded ; which certainly can by no means be faid of Mr. Collier . So that , upon the whole , neither any nor all of thefe per ...
... particular and fo accurate in our ac- counts , as to convey a sufficient knowledge of the perfons we have recorded ; which certainly can by no means be faid of Mr. Collier . So that , upon the whole , neither any nor all of thefe per ...
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... particular notions of a prevailing party in the church , which the archbishop thought too hard for those who made the fundamentals of religion their ftudy and were not so zealous for forms . His conduct in this and Life of abp . other ...
... particular notions of a prevailing party in the church , which the archbishop thought too hard for those who made the fundamentals of religion their ftudy and were not so zealous for forms . His conduct in this and Life of abp . other ...
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... particular paffages in the ancients are inferted in the first volume of Gruterus's Thefaurus Cri- ticus , under the title of Annotationes Variæ ; but they are few in number . He wrote alfo a preface to that edition of Aure- lius Victor ...
... particular paffages in the ancients are inferted in the first volume of Gruterus's Thefaurus Cri- ticus , under the title of Annotationes Variæ ; but they are few in number . He wrote alfo a preface to that edition of Aure- lius Victor ...
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... particular turn of their minds . They have accordingly bestowed the highest encomiums and tiles upon Abul Fafa- gius [ E ] . Simon Si moni Com ment . in Ariftot.Eth . Naudei bi- bliograph . polit . p . 16 . [ D ] Nor will Affemanus ...
... particular turn of their minds . They have accordingly bestowed the highest encomiums and tiles upon Abul Fafa- gius [ E ] . Simon Si moni Com ment . in Ariftot.Eth . Naudei bi- bliograph . polit . p . 16 . [ D ] Nor will Affemanus ...
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... particular friend and patron . This general was fo highly pleafed with the verses which Accius wrote in his praife , that he had them infcribed at the entrance of the temples and monuments raised out of the fpoils of the vanquished ...
... particular friend and patron . This general was fo highly pleafed with the verses which Accius wrote in his praife , that he had them infcribed at the entrance of the temples and monuments raised out of the fpoils of the vanquished ...
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