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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... subjects fhew an unbounded genius . He was a perfon of vaft appli- çation , wrote easily , and with abundance of fire and erudi- tion . He defigned to collect all his works into a body , as well those which had been already published ...
... subjects fhew an unbounded genius . He was a perfon of vaft appli- çation , wrote easily , and with abundance of fire and erudi- tion . He defigned to collect all his works into a body , as well those which had been already published ...
Page 82
... subject , and with fhew- ing only fome contempt of what was offered : " I believe , " fays he in a letter to Mr. Bowyer , " I fhall drop the affair of thefe fpurious letters , and the orations I mentioned ; for , " though I am as ...
... subject , and with fhew- ing only fome contempt of what was offered : " I believe , " fays he in a letter to Mr. Bowyer , " I fhall drop the affair of thefe fpurious letters , and the orations I mentioned ; for , " though I am as ...
Page 112
... subject : as alfo upon the account of the " Hebrew word mas , tribute , which is often used in this " chapter , he makes a long digreffion concerning the rife of " the mafs , wherein he explains all the parts of it . " It is eafy to ...
... subject : as alfo upon the account of the " Hebrew word mas , tribute , which is often used in this " chapter , he makes a long digreffion concerning the rife of " the mafs , wherein he explains all the parts of it . " It is eafy to ...
Page 149
... subjects " they are , can never , before a Chriftian judge , make their " armies pafs for juft . But being no way neceffitated to " make fuch a defence , their liberty having in no one par- " ticular been affaulted , which hath not been ...
... subjects " they are , can never , before a Chriftian judge , make their " armies pafs for juft . But being no way neceffitated to " make fuch a defence , their liberty having in no one par- " ticular been affaulted , which hath not been ...
Page 155
... Subject with Don Lewis de Haro , the Spanish Mi- " nifter ; the whole enriched with hiftorical Notes . " MEAD ( RICHARD ) , a moft diftinguifhed phyfician Anecdotes ( whofe abilities and eminence in his profeffion , united with of ...
... Subject with Don Lewis de Haro , the Spanish Mi- " nifter ; the whole enriched with hiftorical Notes . " MEAD ( RICHARD ) , a moft diftinguifhed phyfician Anecdotes ( whofe abilities and eminence in his profeffion , united with of ...
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