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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... king . There is a letter of his extant , to rabbi Samuel Aben Tyb- bon , in which he has defcribed the nature of ... king in Alkaira ; which places lie two fabbath - days journey afunder . My common attendance upon the king is once every ...
... king . There is a letter of his extant , to rabbi Samuel Aben Tyb- bon , in which he has defcribed the nature of ... king in Alkaira ; which places lie two fabbath - days journey afunder . My common attendance upon the king is once every ...
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... king , fays Voltaire , and not by his mother M. de Montespan , as fome have said , She wrote to the king immediately ; her letters charmed him , and this was the origin of her fortune ; her own perfonal merit effected all the reft . The ...
... king , fays Voltaire , and not by his mother M. de Montespan , as fome have said , She wrote to the king immediately ; her letters charmed him , and this was the origin of her fortune ; her own perfonal merit effected all the reft . The ...
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... king's . One day , moved with the eloquence with which he had defcribed to her the people's miferies in 1698 , the engaged him to draw up a memorial , which might at once.fhew the evil and the remedy . The king read it ; and , upon his ...
... king's . One day , moved with the eloquence with which he had defcribed to her the people's miferies in 1698 , the engaged him to draw up a memorial , which might at once.fhew the evil and the remedy . The king read it ; and , upon his ...
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... king and queen befides this , fhe had not any exterior appearance of grandeur . That piety and devo- tion , with which fhe had infpired the king , and which the had applied very fuccefsfully to make herself a wife , ' instead of a ...
... king and queen befides this , fhe had not any exterior appearance of grandeur . That piety and devo- tion , with which fhe had infpired the king , and which the had applied very fuccefsfully to make herself a wife , ' instead of a ...
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... king , in the winter of 1689. At the death of the king , which hap- pened Sept. 2 , 1715 , madam de Maintenon retired wholly to St. Cyr , where she spent the remainder of her days in acts of devotion . What furprises is , that Lewis XIV ...
... king , in the winter of 1689. At the death of the king , which hap- pened Sept. 2 , 1715 , madam de Maintenon retired wholly to St. Cyr , where she spent the remainder of her days in acts of devotion . What furprises is , that Lewis XIV ...
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