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 PeriodG. G. and J. Robinson, 1798 - Biography |
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... French Papinian , the French and German lawyer ; " and died at Paris in 1566 , a Roman catholic , as it is faid , though a proteftant before . MOLINÆUS ( PETER ) , or PETER DU MOULIN , a celebrated French proteftant minifter , and of ...
... French Papinian , the French and German lawyer ; " and died at Paris in 1566 , a Roman catholic , as it is faid , though a proteftant before . MOLINÆUS ( PETER ) , or PETER DU MOULIN , a celebrated French proteftant minifter , and of ...
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... French embaffador countenanced him greatly , ( for , Henry IV . at that time fent proteftant embaffadors into proteftant countries , ) and recommended him to the queen - mother ; by whose interest he obtained the profefforfhip of ...
... French embaffador countenanced him greatly , ( for , Henry IV . at that time fent proteftant embaffadors into proteftant countries , ) and recommended him to the queen - mother ; by whose interest he obtained the profefforfhip of ...
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... French academy , was born at Paris in 1687 . He was a very elegant writer , and his works have gone through various editions . His principal performances are , " An Effay on the Neceflity and Means of Pleafing , " which is an inge ...
... French academy , was born at Paris in 1687 . He was a very elegant writer , and his works have gone through various editions . His principal performances are , " An Effay on the Neceflity and Means of Pleafing , " which is an inge ...
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... French academy , and of the academy of infcriptions and belles lettres ; and was fitted to do honour to any fociety . In the first volume of the " Memoirs of the Academy of Infcriptions " there are two fine differtations of his one ...
... French academy , and of the academy of infcriptions and belles lettres ; and was fitted to do honour to any fociety . In the first volume of the " Memoirs of the Academy of Infcriptions " there are two fine differtations of his one ...
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... French , who had any genius for poetry , ftrove for the palm on this occafion ; but la Monnoye gained it from them all , and was therefore the first who won the prize founded by the French academy ; by which he gained a reputation that ...
... French , who had any genius for poetry , ftrove for the palm on this occafion ; but la Monnoye gained it from them all , and was therefore the first who won the prize founded by the French academy ; by which he gained a reputation that ...
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