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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... these works are Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary ; the Gene- ral Dictionary ; the Biographia Britannica ; the Athenæ Oxonienfes , and Mr. Collier's Hif torical Dictionary . Bayle's work is in five large volumes in folio : yet ...
... these works are Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary ; the Gene- ral Dictionary ; the Biographia Britannica ; the Athenæ Oxonienfes , and Mr. Collier's Hif torical Dictionary . Bayle's work is in five large volumes in folio : yet ...
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... these the chief alone are felected , though many others have a degree of eminence fufficient to render them objects of general curiosity . The Athena Oxonienfes is written upon a plan ftill more contracted , for it contains an account ...
... these the chief alone are felected , though many others have a degree of eminence fufficient to render them objects of general curiosity . The Athena Oxonienfes is written upon a plan ftill more contracted , for it contains an account ...
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... these terms : " The most shining " of thefe treatises for defence of the " Chriftian religion , which were pub- " lished by the Proteftants , is that writ- ten by Mr. Abbadie . The favourable " reception it met with , the praise it ...
... these terms : " The most shining " of thefe treatises for defence of the " Chriftian religion , which were pub- " lished by the Proteftants , is that writ- ten by Mr. Abbadie . The favourable " reception it met with , the praise it ...
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... these do not expect to " be accounted Papifts , because they speak only against Pu- ritans , but because they are indeed Papifts , they speak " nothing against them : or if they do , they beat about the bufh , and that foftly too , for ...
... these do not expect to " be accounted Papifts , because they speak only against Pu- ritans , but because they are indeed Papifts , they speak " nothing against them : or if they do , they beat about the bufh , and that foftly too , for ...
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... these the editor has prefixed fome memoirs of his life , from which the above particulars are extracted . ABLANCOURT . See Perrot , ABLE , or ABEL ( THOMAS ) , was admitted B. A. at Ox- Oxen.vol.I. ford , July 4 , 1513 , and took his ...
... these the editor has prefixed fome memoirs of his life , from which the above particulars are extracted . ABLANCOURT . See Perrot , ABLE , or ABEL ( THOMAS ) , was admitted B. A. at Ox- Oxen.vol.I. ford , July 4 , 1513 , and took his ...
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