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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... author , and explains the causes and rea- fons of each particular branch of it . This procedure how ever drew upon him much ill - will , and ever MAIMO MAIMONIDE S. claimed their futility to the world, and cautioned his ...
... author , and explains the causes and rea- fons of each particular branch of it . This procedure how ever drew upon him much ill - will , and ever MAIMO MAIMONIDE S. claimed their futility to the world, and cautioned his ...
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... causes and reafons of their inftitution . " But to go on with Maimonides . These three works , which we have mentioned , although the principal , are not yet all that we have of him , and bear a very small propor > tion to what we have ...
... causes and reafons of their inftitution . " But to go on with Maimonides . These three works , which we have mentioned , although the principal , are not yet all that we have of him , and bear a very small propor > tion to what we have ...
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... cause of 1599 . " evil ; that the harmony of this world is compofed of " contraries , like a harp , whofe mufic confifts of high and " low notes , as Heraclitus faid , and to the fame purpose " Euripides alfo : " The good was never ...
... cause of 1599 . " evil ; that the harmony of this world is compofed of " contraries , like a harp , whofe mufic confifts of high and " low notes , as Heraclitus faid , and to the fame purpose " Euripides alfo : " The good was never ...
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... caused his book to pass a very ftrict examination . After the death of Urban VIII . cardinal Bichi warmly folicited Innocent X. to grant the bulls in favour of the bishop of Conferans ; but the affeffor of the holy office awakened the ...
... caused his book to pass a very ftrict examination . After the death of Urban VIII . cardinal Bichi warmly folicited Innocent X. to grant the bulls in favour of the bishop of Conferans ; but the affeffor of the holy office awakened the ...
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... caused a moft ftately monument to be erected to her memory ; but dying himfelf in 1676 , it served for them both , and the epitaph is as follows : " Here lies the loyal duke of Newcastle , and his duchefs his fe- " cond wife , by whom ...
... caused a moft ftately monument to be erected to her memory ; but dying himfelf in 1676 , it served for them both , and the epitaph is as follows : " Here lies the loyal duke of Newcastle , and his duchefs his fe- " cond wife , by whom ...
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