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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... fome lawfuits , and recover fome debts ; but madam Villette perfuaded her to defift from her pretenfions ; fo fhe returned to America , where she found her hufband ruined by gaming . In 1646 , this hopeful spark died , when madam ...
... fome lawfuits , and recover fome debts ; but madam Villette perfuaded her to defift from her pretenfions ; fo fhe returned to America , where she found her hufband ruined by gaming . In 1646 , this hopeful spark died , when madam ...
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... 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 ready money . It was rather ...
... 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 ready money . It was rather ...
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... fome nights , that a man appeared to him , who exhorted him to continue his comment vigor- oufly , and affured him that he fhould finish it , but that he should not live long after ; and , in fo faying , the man pointed to a certain ...
... fome nights , that a man appeared to him , who exhorted him to continue his comment vigor- oufly , and affured him that he fhould finish it , but that he should not live long after ; and , in fo faying , the man pointed to a certain ...
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... fome others , " which are easily redreffed , it appears plainly , that this f Jefuit had bestowed abundance of pains upon that excel- " lent work . He does not allow one difficulty to pass with- " out examining it to the bottom . When a ...
... fome others , " which are easily redreffed , it appears plainly , that this f Jefuit had bestowed abundance of pains upon that excel- " lent work . He does not allow one difficulty to pass with- " out examining it to the bottom . When a ...
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... fome other favourite , had made him the fame promife . " He would often fay , that " the " religion of gentlemen was that of their prince . " During his laft fickness , he had much ado to refolve to confess to a prieft ; for which he ...
... fome other favourite , had made him the fame promife . " He would often fay , that " the " religion of gentlemen was that of their prince . " During his laft fickness , he had much ado to refolve to confess to a prieft ; for which he ...
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