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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... language . In 1599 , he went to Paris , to be minifter at Charenton , and chaplain to Catharine of Bourbon , the king's fifter , who was then married to Henry of Lorrain , duke of Bar . This lady continued a determined proteftant in ...
... language . In 1599 , he went to Paris , to be minifter at Charenton , and chaplain to Catharine of Bourbon , the king's fifter , who was then married to Henry of Lorrain , duke of Bar . This lady continued a determined proteftant in ...
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... languages of Europe . The principle it inculcated was , that men ought to annihilate them- felves , as it were , in order to be united with the Deity . A violent perfecution was excited against him , and , in 1685 , he was thrown into ...
... languages of Europe . The principle it inculcated was , that men ought to annihilate them- felves , as it were , in order to be united with the Deity . A violent perfecution was excited against him , and , in 1685 , he was thrown into ...
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... language . ' He fucceeded both in profe and verfe , in the ferious and the comic ; infomuch , that , far beyond the judgement which his countryman Sadolet made of him , viz . that he would have ex- celled in every kind of compofition to ...
... language . ' He fucceeded both in profe and verfe , in the ferious and the comic ; infomuch , that , far beyond the judgement which his countryman Sadolet made of him , viz . that he would have ex- celled in every kind of compofition to ...
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... language ; and John Maria Barbier formed her in the politenefs of the Tufcan tongue ; in which the has not only written a great number of cafy and elegant verfes , but likewife feveral letters , and other pieces , which are in high ...
... language ; and John Maria Barbier formed her in the politenefs of the Tufcan tongue ; in which the has not only written a great number of cafy and elegant verfes , but likewife feveral letters , and other pieces , which are in high ...
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... languages as well as her own . Afterwards the learned mufic , as a relaxation and diverfion from her more ferious ftudies ... language , by my reading Plato to you , within the compafs of three months . In Latin you compose verfes of all ...
... languages as well as her own . Afterwards the learned mufic , as a relaxation and diverfion from her more ferious ftudies ... language , by my reading Plato to you , within the compafs of three months . In Latin you compose verfes of all ...
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