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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... same time , next day communicated to Maignan the king's intentions by the means of M. de Fieu- bet , first prefident of the parliament of Touloufe ; but the father humbly expreffed his defire to pafs the remainder of his days in the ...
... same time , next day communicated to Maignan the king's intentions by the means of M. de Fieu- bet , first prefident of the parliament of Touloufe ; but the father humbly expreffed his defire to pafs the remainder of his days in the ...
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... same time , that some very particular confiderations had induced him to compofe them . Malherbe , having run them over with a fu- percilious air , afked the gentleman bluntly , as his manner was , " whether he had been fentenced to be ...
... same time , that some very particular confiderations had induced him to compofe them . Malherbe , having run them over with a fu- percilious air , afked the gentleman bluntly , as his manner was , " whether he had been fentenced to be ...
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... same time one so much hated by thofe of the Roman Catholic communion , should be whipped in all the cross - ways of a great city , without its being known all over Europe ; and yet this ftrange fact ftands originally upon the fingle ...
... same time one so much hated by thofe of the Roman Catholic communion , should be whipped in all the cross - ways of a great city , without its being known all over Europe ; and yet this ftrange fact ftands originally upon the fingle ...
Page 188
... same time with the title of the cardinal of Spain . He did great fer- Hift . Efpag- vices afterwards to Ferdinand and Ifabella , in the war against the king of Portugal , and in the conqueft of the kingdom of Granada over the Moors . He ...
... same time with the title of the cardinal of Spain . He did great fer- Hift . Efpag- vices afterwards to Ferdinand and Ifabella , in the war against the king of Portugal , and in the conqueft of the kingdom of Granada over the Moors . He ...
Page 317
... same of Mont- faucon . However , Tully fpake contemptuously of his fcrib- bler , as if his works could not be put to any better ufe ; which we are far from infinuating of Montfaucon , whofe writings fhew him to have been fenfible ...
... same of Mont- faucon . However , Tully fpake contemptuously of his fcrib- bler , as if his works could not be put to any better ufe ; which we are far from infinuating of Montfaucon , whofe writings fhew him to have been fenfible ...
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