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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... France from 86 " twelve years of age , and by that means was become a very faithful and loyal fubject of that king ; that he was now " almost feventy - fix years old ; that his father and mother being very rich had founded a college for ...
... France from 86 " twelve years of age , and by that means was become a very faithful and loyal fubject of that king ; that he was now " almost feventy - fix years old ; that his father and mother being very rich had founded a college for ...
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... France , leaving her debts unpaid , and her daughter as a pledge in the hands of one of her principal creditors ; who , however , foon fent her into France after her mother . Here neglected by her mother , who was indeed little able to ...
... France , leaving her debts unpaid , and her daughter as a pledge in the hands of one of her principal creditors ; who , however , foon fent her into France after her mother . Here neglected by her mother , who was indeed little able to ...
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... France ; a blue ribbon , and fome appropriations in the farms of the revenue , were all his fortune : which made him once fay to the marfhal de Vivone , the brother of madam de Montefpan , that he had received the ftaff of marfhal in ...
... France ; a blue ribbon , and fome appropriations in the farms of the revenue , were all his fortune : which made him once fay to the marfhal de Vivone , the brother of madam de Montefpan , that he had received the ftaff of marfhal in ...
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... France , declared his fatisfaction upon being brought to Paris , because he had always had a defire to fee Lewis XIV . and father Malebranche . 66 He wrote several works . The first and principal , as in- deed it gave rife to almost all ...
... France , declared his fatisfaction upon being brought to Paris , because he had always had a defire to fee Lewis XIV . and father Malebranche . 66 He wrote several works . The first and principal , as in- deed it gave rife to almost all ...
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... France , father Lomy , a Bene- dictin , in his book " De la connoiffance de foi - même , " cited fome paffages out of our author's " Recherche de la " verité , " as favourable to that party ; upon this Male- branche thought proper to ...
... France , father Lomy , a Bene- dictin , in his book " De la connoiffance de foi - même , " cited fome paffages out of our author's " Recherche de la " verité , " as favourable to that party ; upon this Male- branche thought proper to ...
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