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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... ftudy was " Radcliffe , pointing to a few phials , a fkele- ton , and an herbal , replied , " Sir , this is Radcliffe's Li- brary . " In 1675 , he proceeded M. B. and immediately began to practise . He never paid any regard to the rules ...
... ftudy was " Radcliffe , pointing to a few phials , a fkele- ton , and an herbal , replied , " Sir , this is Radcliffe's Li- brary . " In 1675 , he proceeded M. B. and immediately began to practise . He never paid any regard to the rules ...
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... ftudy philofophy ; and , afterwards applying himself to phyfic , took a doctor's degree there in 1659. Then he went to Rome , for the fake of penetrating ftill further into his art ; and afterwards fettled in the duchy of Caf- tro ...
... ftudy philofophy ; and , afterwards applying himself to phyfic , took a doctor's degree there in 1659. Then he went to Rome , for the fake of penetrating ftill further into his art ; and afterwards fettled in the duchy of Caf- tro ...
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... ftudy was fo violent , that , notwithstanding his ill fortune in two journeys , he ventured upon a third . He was maintained there fome months by one of his un- cles , after which he was obliged to be a fervant in the college of Navarre ...
... ftudy was fo violent , that , notwithstanding his ill fortune in two journeys , he ventured upon a third . He was maintained there fome months by one of his un- cles , after which he was obliged to be a fervant in the college of Navarre ...
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... ftudy all day ; and led a fingle life with the utmoft purity . He was zealous for the Prote- ftant religion , but at the fame time a little obftinate , and given to contradiction . The Proteftant ministers did not love him much , for he ...
... ftudy all day ; and led a fingle life with the utmoft purity . He was zealous for the Prote- ftant religion , but at the fame time a little obftinate , and given to contradiction . The Proteftant ministers did not love him much , for he ...
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... ftudy , and what indeed made the chief business of his life , was . the univerfal hiftory of nature , and the works of God : and in this he acquired great and exact fkill . He pub- lifhed , in 1660 , a " Catalogue of the Cambridge ...
... ftudy , and what indeed made the chief business of his life , was . the univerfal hiftory of nature , and the works of God : and in this he acquired great and exact fkill . He pub- lifhed , in 1660 , a " Catalogue of the Cambridge ...
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