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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... died in 1686 ; after having made a will by which it appears that he was extremely dif fatisfied with the Jefuits . Bayle has given the substance of it , as far as relates to them ; and he calls it a kind of a decla- ration of war . It ...
... died in 1686 ; after having made a will by which it appears that he was extremely dif fatisfied with the Jefuits . Bayle has given the substance of it , as far as relates to them ; and he calls it a kind of a decla- ration of war . It ...
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... died . Proteftant authors have charged him with paffion and infincerity , and pretend to have con- victed him of great errors and mifrepresentations , in their re- futations of his " Hiftory of Lutheranifm and Calvinifm . " The ...
... died . Proteftant authors have charged him with paffion and infincerity , and pretend to have con- victed him of great errors and mifrepresentations , in their re- futations of his " Hiftory of Lutheranifm and Calvinifm . " The ...
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... died in Egypt , when he was feventy years of age , and was buried with his nation in the land of Upper Galilee . The Jews and Egyptians bewailed his death for three whole days , and called the year he died in " Lamentum lamentabile ...
... died in Egypt , when he was feventy years of age , and was buried with his nation in the land of Upper Galilee . The Jews and Egyptians bewailed his death for three whole days , and called the year he died in " Lamentum lamentabile ...
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... died , when madam Daubigné was left , in the utmost dif- trefs , to fupport herself , and manage the education of her children , as fhe could . She returned to France , leaving her debts unpaid , and her daughter as a pledge in the ...
... died , when madam Daubigné was left , in the utmost dif- trefs , to fupport herself , and manage the education of her children , as fhe could . She returned to France , leaving her debts unpaid , and her daughter as a pledge in the ...
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... died in the beginning of 1583 . He had a dream , it feems , which gave him notice of his death . He dreamed , for ... dying , gave orders to the " Jefuits of Pont à Mouflon to caufe it to be printed , from a copy which was fent them ...
... died in the beginning of 1583 . He had a dream , it feems , which gave him notice of his death . He dreamed , for ... dying , gave orders to the " Jefuits of Pont à Mouflon to caufe it to be printed , from a copy which was fent them ...
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