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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... received their academic education at the University of Oxford . Mr. Collier's Great Hiftorical , Geographical , Genealogical , Poetical Dictionary may possibly feem , by the pretended univerfality of its plan , to have answered every ...
... received their academic education at the University of Oxford . Mr. Collier's Great Hiftorical , Geographical , Genealogical , Poetical Dictionary may possibly feem , by the pretended univerfality of its plan , to have answered every ...
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... be thankfully received by the publishers . An Appendix is now given , of fuch lives as have come to hand too late to be inferted in alphabetical order . August 1 , 1784 . AN L IS T OF THE LI V E S CONTAINED xii ADVERTISEMENT .
... be thankfully received by the publishers . An Appendix is now given , of fuch lives as have come to hand too late to be inferted in alphabetical order . August 1 , 1784 . AN L IS T OF THE LI V E S CONTAINED xii ADVERTISEMENT .
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... received great marks of esteem from the king , who created him a knight and baron ; and for this reafon he was received amongst the nobles of the province of Holland . However , he became at length fo bida odious to the French court ...
... received great marks of esteem from the king , who created him a knight and baron ; and for this reafon he was received amongst the nobles of the province of Holland . However , he became at length fo bida odious to the French court ...
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... received with the greatest humanity , fo that Dr. Abbadie had in a little time a great charge ; of which he took all poffible care , and by his intereft at court did many fervices to his diftreffed countrymen . The elector dying in 1688 ...
... received with the greatest humanity , fo that Dr. Abbadie had in a little time a great charge ; of which he took all poffible care , and by his intereft at court did many fervices to his diftreffed countrymen . The elector dying in 1688 ...
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... received B 3 10 of abp Laud , fol . 1688. p . I. [ A ] The account of his writings , in the order they were published , is as follows : " Sermons fur divers textes de " l'Ecriture ; Leiden , 1680. " Ser- mons on several texts of ...
... received B 3 10 of abp Laud , fol . 1688. p . I. [ A ] The account of his writings , in the order they were published , is as follows : " Sermons fur divers textes de " l'Ecriture ; Leiden , 1680. " Ser- mons on several texts of ...
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