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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... applied to illuftrate and confirm thofe tenets , he did not think himself obliged to admit them implicitly ; and therefore , where he did not , upon examination , find them folid and well- grounded , he rejected them , and made no ...
... applied to illuftrate and confirm thofe tenets , he did not think himself obliged to admit them implicitly ; and therefore , where he did not , upon examination , find them folid and well- grounded , he rejected them , and made no ...
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... applied himself alfo to the Chaldee , Turkish , & c . & c . of all which he became a mafter in a very few years . It is probable alfo , that he was not ignorant of the Greek , fince in his writings he often quotes Ariftotle , Plato ...
... applied himself alfo to the Chaldee , Turkish , & c . & c . of all which he became a mafter in a very few years . It is probable alfo , that he was not ignorant of the Greek , fince in his writings he often quotes Ariftotle , Plato ...
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... applied very fuccefsfully to make herself a wife , ' instead of a miftrefs , became by degrees a fincere and fettled difpo- fition of mind , which age and affliction confirmed . She had already , with the king and the whole court ...
... applied very fuccefsfully to make herself a wife , ' instead of a miftrefs , became by degrees a fincere and fettled difpo- fition of mind , which age and affliction confirmed . She had already , with the king and the whole court ...
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... applied to , and exemplified in , the English tongue , 1712. " 8vo . In " Catalogus Librorum Manu- " fcriptorum Angliæ & Hiberniæ , Oxon . 1697 , " t . ii . p . 27 . is inferted " Librorum Manufcriptorum Ecclefiæ Weftmo- " nafterienfis ...
... applied to , and exemplified in , the English tongue , 1712. " 8vo . In " Catalogus Librorum Manu- " fcriptorum Angliæ & Hiberniæ , Oxon . 1697 , " t . ii . p . 27 . is inferted " Librorum Manufcriptorum Ecclefiæ Weftmo- " nafterienfis ...
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... applied himself to father Simon , who talked to him of nothing but Hebrew , Arabic , Syriac , rabbinical learning , and critical enquiries into the fense of the fcriptures . But this kind of ftudy was not at all more fuitable to his ...
... applied himself to father Simon , who talked to him of nothing but Hebrew , Arabic , Syriac , rabbinical learning , and critical enquiries into the fense of the fcriptures . But this kind of ftudy was not at all more fuitable to his ...
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