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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... Christianity , are " fet forth ; the Hiftory of the old Nazaræans cleared up , " and the whole conduct of the firft Chriftians in refpect of " the Jewish Laws explained and defcribed . " The author then ftyled himself " Rector of St ...
... Christianity , are " fet forth ; the Hiftory of the old Nazaræans cleared up , " and the whole conduct of the firft Chriftians in refpect of " the Jewish Laws explained and defcribed . " The author then ftyled himself " Rector of St ...
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... Christianity before Manes occafioned any noise about it , were by no means its inventors , but found it in the books of the heathen philofophers . Thus Plutarch gives an account of the antiquity and universal reception of this doctrine ...
... Christianity before Manes occafioned any noise about it , were by no means its inventors , but found it in the books of the heathen philofophers . Thus Plutarch gives an account of the antiquity and universal reception of this doctrine ...
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... Christian king of Britain , a tragedy , was written by her , and acted in Drury - lane , in 1717. She dedicated it to Sir Richard Steele , whom she had abufed in her " New " Atalantis ; " but was now upon fuch friendly terms with him ...
... Christian king of Britain , a tragedy , was written by her , and acted in Drury - lane , in 1717. She dedicated it to Sir Richard Steele , whom she had abufed in her " New " Atalantis ; " but was now upon fuch friendly terms with him ...
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... Christians ; and that is , his furnishing them with arms against the Jews , by his famous paffage concerning the re- building of their temple , and confirming at the fame time the truth and divinity of the Chriftian religion . Several ...
... Christians ; and that is , his furnishing them with arms against the Jews , by his famous paffage concerning the re- building of their temple , and confirming at the fame time the truth and divinity of the Chriftian religion . Several ...
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... Christianity , or the millennium . " He represented the seditions with which England had been agitated , after the ... Christian ma- jefty was greatly provoked at the affront done the duke of Crequi at Rome , in 1662. He marched an ...
... Christianity , or the millennium . " He represented the seditions with which England had been agitated , after the ... Christian ma- jefty was greatly provoked at the affront done the duke of Crequi at Rome , in 1662. He marched an ...
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