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 - Biography |
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... should have à doctor's degree without having ftudied five years in fome univerfity . The fame year the chamber of the edict was fuppreffed , which obliged Rapin's family to remove to Toulouse and the ftate of the Reformed growing every ...
... should have à doctor's degree without having ftudied five years in fome univerfity . The fame year the chamber of the edict was fuppreffed , which obliged Rapin's family to remove to Toulouse and the ftate of the Reformed growing every ...
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... should imbibe , as he did , the bad taste of his country . Nevertheless , he formed a manner entirely new and peculiar to himself ; and drew abundance of portraits with wonderful ftrength , fweetnefs , and refemblance . Even in his ...
... should imbibe , as he did , the bad taste of his country . Nevertheless , he formed a manner entirely new and peculiar to himself ; and drew abundance of portraits with wonderful ftrength , fweetnefs , and refemblance . Even in his ...
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... should be re - eftablished ) " thought him a proper inftrument to affift his defign of reducing thofe other tyrants ; and therefore not only him his liberty , but alfo appointed him governor and fenator of Rome . He met with many ...
... should be re - eftablished ) " thought him a proper inftrument to affift his defign of reducing thofe other tyrants ; and therefore not only him his liberty , but alfo appointed him governor and fenator of Rome . He met with many ...
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... should chufe a rector of more mo- deration : but that was hardly poffible ; for nothing could be more benign , more pacific , more fweet , more moderate , than Rollin's temper . He fhewed , it must be owned , fome zeal for the caufe of ...
... should chufe a rector of more mo- deration : but that was hardly poffible ; for nothing could be more benign , more pacific , more fweet , more moderate , than Rollin's temper . He fhewed , it must be owned , fome zeal for the caufe of ...
Page 149
... should go in the fpring to Geneva , to demand the remains of his mother's fortune . He went accordingly , and his fa- ther came alfo to Geneva , undisturbed , his affair being now buried in oblivion . No difficulty was occafioned by our ...
... should go in the fpring to Geneva , to demand the remains of his mother's fortune . He went accordingly , and his fa- ther came alfo to Geneva , undisturbed , his affair being now buried in oblivion . No difficulty was occafioned by our ...
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