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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... prince neither " could nor ought to be written in fs than an hundred years after his death , unless it were to be made up of " extracts from Gazettes , and fuch like materials . " 16 2.6 Though Racine had made it a point of religion ...
... prince neither " could nor ought to be written in fs than an hundred years after his death , unless it were to be made up of " extracts from Gazettes , and fuch like materials . " 16 2.6 Though Racine had made it a point of religion ...
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... prince , who had lived fix months with " his wife without knowing what the was ; who , with- out the leaf pretence for it , commanded a whole nation " to be murdered ; and with as little reafon afterwards hanged his favorite . But ...
... prince , who had lived fix months with " his wife without knowing what the was ; who , with- out the leaf pretence for it , commanded a whole nation " to be murdered ; and with as little reafon afterwards hanged his favorite . But ...
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... prince George of Denmark joined the prince of Orange , and the princefs his confort retired to Nottingham , the doctor was preffed by bifhop Compton to attend her in quality of his office , the being alfo big with child of the duke of ...
... prince George of Denmark joined the prince of Orange , and the princefs his confort retired to Nottingham , the doctor was preffed by bifhop Compton to attend her in quality of his office , the being alfo big with child of the duke of ...
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... the ftory , and ) who , as " I have been informed by great phyficians , got as much again by his practice as Dr. Radcliffe did , " RAINOLDS 66 66 < C 2 ' 6 Prince's Worthies of Oxon . RAINOLDS ( JOHN ) , RADCLIFFE . I )
... the ftory , and ) who , as " I have been informed by great phyficians , got as much again by his practice as Dr. Radcliffe did , " RAINOLDS 66 66 < C 2 ' 6 Prince's Worthies of Oxon . RAINOLDS ( JOHN ) , RADCLIFFE . I )
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... Prince's Worthies of Oxon . RAINOLDS ( JOHN ) , an eminent English divine , was born at Pinto in Devonshire in 1549 , and sent to Merton - college , Oxford , in 1562. He removed to Cor- Devonshire . pus Chrifti - college , of which he ...
... Prince's Worthies of Oxon . RAINOLDS ( JOHN ) , an eminent English divine , was born at Pinto in Devonshire in 1549 , and sent to Merton - college , Oxford , in 1562. He removed to Cor- Devonshire . pus Chrifti - college , of which he ...
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