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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... James Lord Annefley . He had published in 1680 " Ovid Traveftie , a Burlefque upon Ovid's Epiftles ; " with a fatirical introduction occa- fioned by the " Preface to a late Book , called , The Wits paraphrafed . " Mr. Tonfon printed a ...
... James Lord Annefley . He had published in 1680 " Ovid Traveftie , a Burlefque upon Ovid's Epiftles ; " with a fatirical introduction occa- fioned by the " Preface to a late Book , called , The Wits paraphrafed . " Mr. Tonfon printed a ...
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... James I. He was inclined to Puritanism , but with fuch moderation , that he continued a confor- mist to the church of England . He was thought to shorten his life by too fevere application to his ftudies ; but , when his friends urged ...
... James I. He was inclined to Puritanism , but with fuch moderation , that he continued a confor- mist to the church of England . He was thought to shorten his life by too fevere application to his ftudies ; but , when his friends urged ...
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... James III . king of Great Britain , to take the charge of educating his children . He went accordingly to that court , in 1724 ; but the intrigues and diffentions , which he found on his arrival there , gave him fo much uneafinefs ...
... James III . king of Great Britain , to take the charge of educating his children . He went accordingly to that court , in 1724 ; but the intrigues and diffentions , which he found on his arrival there , gave him fo much uneafinefs ...
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... James Gardiner of Jefus - college in Cambridge . All his Latin poems , confifting of odes , epitaphs , facred eclogues , and thefe four books upon Gardens , were collected and published at Paris 1681 , in 2 vols . 12mo . He applied ...
... James Gardiner of Jefus - college in Cambridge . All his Latin poems , confifting of odes , epitaphs , facred eclogues , and thefe four books upon Gardens , were collected and published at Paris 1681 , in 2 vols . 12mo . He applied ...
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... James de Rapin , lord & c . of Thoyras , was our author's father . He applied him- felf to the study of the law , and was an advocate in the chamber of the edict of Nantes above fifty years . Thefe chambers were courts of judicature ...
... James de Rapin , lord & c . of Thoyras , was our author's father . He applied him- felf to the study of the law , and was an advocate in the chamber of the edict of Nantes above fifty years . Thefe chambers were courts of judicature ...
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