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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... religious connexions , for the fake of leading a life more suitable to his tafte and humour : but he afterwards renewed them , and in a fecond journey to Rome obtained in 1536 , by his intereft with fome cardinals , a brief from pope ...
... religious connexions , for the fake of leading a life more suitable to his tafte and humour : but he afterwards renewed them , and in a fecond journey to Rome obtained in 1536 , by his intereft with fome cardinals , a brief from pope ...
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... religious of the Port - Royal . M. du Bois and Barbier Daucour having each of them replied to this letter , Racine oppofed them ... religion : and this , though it had been fmothered for a while by his connections with the theatre , and ...
... religious of the Port - Royal . M. du Bois and Barbier Daucour having each of them replied to this letter , Racine oppofed them ... religion : and this , though it had been fmothered for a while by his connections with the theatre , and ...
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... religious di- Siecle de rector , however , not fo mad , but a good deal wifer than he , tom . ii . advised him to ... religion , never to meddle any more with poetry , yet he was again drawn , in fpite of all the refiftance he could ...
... religious di- Siecle de rector , however , not fo mad , but a good deal wifer than he , tom . ii . advised him to ... religion , never to meddle any more with poetry , yet he was again drawn , in fpite of all the refiftance he could ...
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... religion in which he was bred ; and in that ill - humour , cafting his eye upon other Chriftian churches , and ... religious principles , entered heartily with him into a difcuffion of them , and , to be fhort , in fix months time made ...
... religion in which he was bred ; and in that ill - humour , cafting his eye upon other Chriftian churches , and ... religious principles , entered heartily with him into a difcuffion of them , and , to be fhort , in fix months time made ...
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... Religion , ex plained and unfoulded in a geometrical Order . 1749 . in 2 vols . 4to . 66 >> voce . RAMUS ( PETER ) a moft famous profeffor of France , was born in 1515 , in a village of Vermandois in Picardy . His family was good , but ...
... Religion , ex plained and unfoulded in a geometrical Order . 1749 . in 2 vols . 4to . 66 >> voce . RAMUS ( PETER ) a moft famous profeffor of France , was born in 1515 , in a village of Vermandois in Picardy . His family was good , but ...
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