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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... Greek ; the novelty of that language making them efteem it not only barbarous , but antichriftian . This we collect from a Greek epiftle of Budæus to Rabelais , in which he praifes him highly for his great knowledge in that tongue , and ...
... Greek ; the novelty of that language making them efteem it not only barbarous , but antichriftian . This we collect from a Greek epiftle of Budæus to Rabelais , in which he praifes him highly for his great knowledge in that tongue , and ...
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... Greek and Latin tongues , and in all polite literature . His genius lying towards poetry , made him particularly fond of So- phocles and Euripides ; infomiuch that he is faid to have learned thefe two great authors by heart . upon the Greek ...
... Greek and Latin tongues , and in all polite literature . His genius lying towards poetry , made him particularly fond of So- phocles and Euripides ; infomiuch that he is faid to have learned thefe two great authors by heart . upon the Greek ...
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... Greek and Latin at a school in the fame town ; in 8vo ; and , at 15 years of age , fent to univerfity college in Ox- compared ford . with later In 1669 , he took his firft degree in arts ; but no publica- fellowship becoming vacant ...
... Greek and Latin at a school in the fame town ; in 8vo ; and , at 15 years of age , fent to univerfity college in Ox- compared ford . with later In 1669 , he took his firft degree in arts ; but no publica- fellowship becoming vacant ...
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... Greek , who had been his tutor , used to say , that the chief of all his pupils , and to whom he esteemed none of the reft comparable , were Mr. Ray and Dr. Barrow , who were of the fame ftanding . In 1651 , he was chofen the Greek ...
... Greek , who had been his tutor , used to say , that the chief of all his pupils , and to whom he esteemed none of the reft comparable , were Mr. Ray and Dr. Barrow , who were of the fame ftanding . In 1651 , he was chofen the Greek ...
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... Greek tongue , which at prefent he knew nothing of . Purbachius confented to the cardinal's propofals , provi- ded Regiomontanus might accompany him , and fhare the tafk ; and all things were agreed on , when Purbachius died in 1461 ...
... Greek tongue , which at prefent he knew nothing of . Purbachius confented to the cardinal's propofals , provi- ded Regiomontanus might accompany him , and fhare the tafk ; and all things were agreed on , when Purbachius died in 1461 ...
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