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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... excellent edition of " Anacreon " in 4to , of which no more than 100 copies were printed , and the few errata in each copy corrected by his own hand . A fecond edition of the like number was printed in 1741 , with fix copies on fine ...
... excellent edition of " Anacreon " in 4to , of which no more than 100 copies were printed , and the few errata in each copy corrected by his own hand . A fecond edition of the like number was printed in 1741 , with fix copies on fine ...
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... excellent elocution as a speaker , understood " the learned languages well , was deeply versed in scholaftic " divinity and theology , and that he had thoroughly read " the fathers . " His character has been as high among the ...
... excellent elocution as a speaker , understood " the learned languages well , was deeply versed in scholaftic " divinity and theology , and that he had thoroughly read " the fathers . " His character has been as high among the ...
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... excellent arts , and from whom they derived their history and the most ancient way of preferving any monu- ments of learning in thofe early times , efpecially among the Egyptians , was by thefe infcriptions on pillars . A poor ...
... excellent arts , and from whom they derived their history and the most ancient way of preferving any monu- ments of learning in thofe early times , efpecially among the Egyptians , was by thefe infcriptions on pillars . A poor ...
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... excellent , particularly his " Commenta- " ries upon Tully's epiftles ad Familiares , " and to Atticus . He died in 1574 ; and his days are faid to have been shorten- ed by domeftic troubles , and by the exceffes he was guilty of in his ...
... excellent , particularly his " Commenta- " ries upon Tully's epiftles ad Familiares , " and to Atticus . He died in 1574 ; and his days are faid to have been shorten- ed by domeftic troubles , and by the exceffes he was guilty of in his ...
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... excellent in its kind . He died very old in 1756 . He was a very refpectable , as well as very learned man ; and was occafionally confulted from every part of Europe . Hist library he left to the univerfity of Leyden , together with his ...
... excellent in its kind . He died very old in 1756 . He was a very refpectable , as well as very learned man ; and was occafionally confulted from every part of Europe . Hist library he left to the univerfity of Leyden , together with his ...
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