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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... honour of him . In 1532 , he published at Lyons fome pieces of Hippo- crates and Galen , with a dedication to the bishop of Mail- lezais ; in which he tells him , that he had read lectures upon the aphorifms of Hippocrates , and the ars ...
... honour of him . In 1532 , he published at Lyons fome pieces of Hippo- crates and Galen , with a dedication to the bishop of Mail- lezais ; in which he tells him , that he had read lectures upon the aphorifms of Hippocrates , and the ars ...
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... honour . The paffages where the Doctor was affronted were received with the utmost applause . ' was this play ? No 44 . 66 " 6 77 In 1709 , he was ridiculed by Steele , in the " Tatler , " under the title of " the Mourning Efculapius ...
... honour . The paffages where the Doctor was affronted were received with the utmost applause . ' was this play ? No 44 . 66 " 6 77 In 1709 , he was ridiculed by Steele , in the " Tatler , " under the title of " the Mourning Efculapius ...
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... honour of his fociety made him undertake , above twenty years before , an Hiftory of Janfenifm . He was a dangerous adversary of that party , and attacked them on their weakest fide in a Latin work , published in 1658 , under the title ...
... honour of his fociety made him undertake , above twenty years before , an Hiftory of Janfenifm . He was a dangerous adversary of that party , and attacked them on their weakest fide in a Latin work , published in 1658 , under the title ...
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... honour , not knowing what the confequences might be in that very critical state of affairs . His fituation indeed was not at all agreeable to him for he was perpetually preffed , upon the fubject of religion , by the French Catholies ...
... honour , not knowing what the confequences might be in that very critical state of affairs . His fituation indeed was not at all agreeable to him for he was perpetually preffed , upon the fubject of religion , by the French Catholies ...
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... honour ; whose " faith , if he owned any , was grounded upon school divinity . Whereupon the chid him , who was , by his own confeffion , ever after branded with the title of " Atheist , though a known affertor of God and provi- " dence ...
... honour ; whose " faith , if he owned any , was grounded upon school divinity . Whereupon the chid him , who was , by his own confeffion , ever after branded with the title of " Atheist , though a known affertor of God and provi- " dence ...
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