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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... Italian phyfician , was born of a good family at Carpi near Modena , in 1633. When he had laid a foundation in grammar and Niceron , claffical literature in his own country , he went to Parma tom . vi , to ftudy philofophy ; and ...
... Italian phyfician , was born of a good family at Carpi near Modena , in 1633. When he had laid a foundation in grammar and Niceron , claffical literature in his own country , he went to Parma tom . vi , to ftudy philofophy ; and ...
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... Italy , he corrected his ideas of mufic by the practice of the harpficord ; and then went to Paris , where he perfected himself under John Lewis Mar- chand , a famous organift . He became organist of the cathedral church of Clermont in ...
... Italy , he corrected his ideas of mufic by the practice of the harpficord ; and then went to Paris , where he perfected himself under John Lewis Mar- chand , a famous organift . He became organist of the cathedral church of Clermont in ...
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... Italy , made little progress in France , but fpread very much in Scotland and England , and ftill more in Germany ; as appears from many books , which feveral German Ariftotelians pub- lithed against the Ramifts . RANDOLPH RANDOLPH ...
... Italy , made little progress in France , but fpread very much in Scotland and England , and ftill more in Germany ; as appears from many books , which feveral German Ariftotelians pub- lithed against the Ramifts . RANDOLPH RANDOLPH ...
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... Notes to be observed by , certain persons , " for the fearching of the fea and border of the coaft , " from the River Pechora to the Eastwards , anno 1588. " . RAPHAEL , RAPHAEL , an illuftrious painter of Italy , was born RANDOLPH . 29.
... Notes to be observed by , certain persons , " for the fearching of the fea and border of the coaft , " from the River Pechora to the Eastwards , anno 1588. " . RAPHAEL , RAPHAEL , an illuftrious painter of Italy , was born RANDOLPH . 29.
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... Italy , was born at Urbin , on Good Friday 1483. His father was an or dinary painter his mafter , Pietro Perugino . Having ä penetrating understanding , as well as a fine genius for painting , he foon perceived that the perfection of ...
... Italy , was born at Urbin , on Good Friday 1483. His father was an or dinary painter his mafter , Pietro Perugino . Having ä penetrating understanding , as well as a fine genius for painting , he foon perceived that the perfection of ...
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