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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... Rome in 1534 , upon the bufi- nefs of our Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Spain , and paffing through Lyons , carried Rabelais with him , in quality of his phyfician ; who returned however home in about fix months . He had ...
... Rome in 1534 , upon the bufi- nefs of our Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Spain , and paffing through Lyons , carried Rabelais with him , in quality of his phyfician ; who returned however home in about fix months . He had ...
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... Rome , for the fake of penetrating ftill further into his art ; and afterwards fettled in the duchy of Caf- tro . After fome time , ill health obliged him to return to Carpi for his native air , where he married a wife , and followed ...
... Rome , for the fake of penetrating ftill further into his art ; and afterwards fettled in the duchy of Caf- tro . After fome time , ill health obliged him to return to Carpi for his native air , where he married a wife , and followed ...
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... Rome by the chevalier de St. George , ftyled there 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 ...
... Rome by the chevalier de St. George , ftyled there 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 ...
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... Rome . He was one of the hand- See CAS- fomeft and beft - tempered men living : fo that , with all thefe natural and acquired accomplishments , it cannot be wondered , that he was not only beloved in the highest degree by the popes ...
... Rome . He was one of the hand- See CAS- fomeft and beft - tempered men living : fo that , with all thefe natural and acquired accomplishments , it cannot be wondered , that he was not only beloved in the highest degree by the popes ...
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... Rome and Athens feems to be breathed into his work . - To conclude , his admirable performance in fucl . a prodigious under- taking fheweth , that , had he attempted the history of his own country or his own times , he would have ...
... Rome and Athens feems to be breathed into his work . - To conclude , his admirable performance in fucl . a prodigious under- taking fheweth , that , had he attempted the history of his own country or his own times , he would have ...
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