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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... folio ; and by John Kelly of the Inner Temple , efq . in 2 vols . folio . Tindal has given a Continuation of Rapin's history to 1760 , and added useful notes to the whole . When Rapin first set about this work , he did not think of ...
... folio ; and by John Kelly of the Inner Temple , efq . in 2 vols . folio . Tindal has given a Continuation of Rapin's history to 1760 , and added useful notes to the whole . When Rapin first set about this work , he did not think of ...
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... folio , and deduces things to the end of the Macedonian empire . As to the ftory of the fecond volume of this hiftory , which , it is faid , he burned because the firft had fold fo flowly that it had ruined his bookfeller , it is ...
... folio , and deduces things to the end of the Macedonian empire . As to the ftory of the fecond volume of this hiftory , which , it is faid , he burned because the firft had fold fo flowly that it had ruined his bookfeller , it is ...
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... folio . A collection of his fmaller pieces were collected and printed together , in 2 vols . Svo , in 1748 . Lord Vere- RAWLEY ( Dr. WILLIAM ) , the learned chaplain of the celebrated Sir Francis Bacon , and editor of his Works , was ...
... folio . A collection of his fmaller pieces were collected and printed together , in 2 vols . Svo , in 1748 . Lord Vere- RAWLEY ( Dr. WILLIAM ) , the learned chaplain of the celebrated Sir Francis Bacon , and editor of his Works , was ...
Page 68
... Germany , under the title of " Res Germanica , " in 2 vols . folio , paffes for his capital work . He alfo wrote " Illyrici Provinciarum utrique " utrique imperio cum Romano tum Conftantinopolitano " fervientis defcriptio ; 68 REUCHLIN.
... Germany , under the title of " Res Germanica , " in 2 vols . folio , paffes for his capital work . He alfo wrote " Illyrici Provinciarum utrique " utrique imperio cum Romano tum Conftantinopolitano " fervientis defcriptio ; 68 REUCHLIN.
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... folio . Ricaut afferts , in this work , that the Mahometan women have no hopes of going to Heaven : but , as Bayle obferves , he is mistaken , Dia . HA- they expecting to be one day admitted there as well as the LIBEIGH Afterwards , he ...
... folio . Ricaut afferts , in this work , that the Mahometan women have no hopes of going to Heaven : but , as Bayle obferves , he is mistaken , Dia . HA- they expecting to be one day admitted there as well as the LIBEIGH Afterwards , he ...
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