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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... 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 medica of Galen , before numerous audiences in ...
... 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 medica of Galen , before numerous audiences in ...
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... fome have regarded it as a prime effort of the human wit , and , like Homer's poems , as an inexhauftible fource of learning , fcience , and knowledge , others have affirmed . it to be nothing but an unintelligible rhapfody , a heap of ...
... fome have regarded it as a prime effort of the human wit , and , like Homer's poems , as an inexhauftible fource of learning , fcience , and knowledge , others have affirmed . it to be nothing but an unintelligible rhapfody , a heap of ...
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... fome time in the college of Harcourt . The French poetry had taken his fancy , and he had already compofed fome little pieces in it ; but it was in 1660 , when all the poets were making their efforts upon the marriage of the king , that ...
... fome time in the college of Harcourt . The French poetry had taken his fancy , and he had already compofed fome little pieces in it ; but it was in 1660 , when all the poets were making their efforts upon the marriage of the king , that ...
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... fome " time laboured at this work , perceived that it was en- tirely oppofite to their genius ; and they judged also , " with reafon , that the , hiftory of fuch a prince neither " could nor ought to be written in fs than an hundred ...
... fome " time laboured at this work , perceived that it was en- tirely oppofite to their genius ; and they judged also , " with reafon , that the , hiftory of fuch a prince neither " could nor ought to be written in fs than an hundred ...
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... fome pieces of Racine of a fmaller kind , which have not been mentioned : as , " Idylle fur la Paix , 1685 ; " " Difcourfe prononce à la reception de " T. Corneille & Bergeret , à l'Academie Françoife , en 1685 ; " " Cantiques ...
... fome pieces of Racine of a fmaller kind , which have not been mentioned : as , " Idylle fur la Paix , 1685 ; " " Difcourfe prononce à la reception de " T. Corneille & Bergeret , à l'Academie Françoife , en 1685 ; " " Cantiques ...
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