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Page 492
... lived throughout James's reign , a Doctor of Civil Law , practising as advocate in the Prerogative Court . Thomas Lodge ( ch . vii . § 42 ) , aged forty - eight , lived on , as a physician in good practice . John Stow ( ch . vii . § 82 ) ...
... lived throughout James's reign , a Doctor of Civil Law , practising as advocate in the Prerogative Court . Thomas Lodge ( ch . vii . § 42 ) , aged forty - eight , lived on , as a physician in good practice . John Stow ( ch . vii . § 82 ) ...
Page 505
... lived on into the next reign , and died an old man , not earlier than 1637 . Nathaniel Field was one of the Children of the Revels who , in 1601 , played in Ben Jonson's " Poetaster . " He became known as a very good actor in the ...
... lived on into the next reign , and died an old man , not earlier than 1637 . Nathaniel Field was one of the Children of the Revels who , in 1601 , played in Ben Jonson's " Poetaster . " He became known as a very good actor in the ...
Page 794
... lived on to within a few years of a hundred . John Locke had been dead ten years , Sir Isaac Newton , aged seventy - two , was still living , and lived to the close of the reign of George I. , dying March 20th , 1727 , two or three ...
... lived on to within a few years of a hundred . John Locke had been dead ten years , Sir Isaac Newton , aged seventy - two , was still living , and lived to the close of the reign of George I. , dying March 20th , 1727 , two or three ...
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