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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... lord Bolingbroke , often re- proached her aunt for doing fo little for her family ; and once told her in fome anger , that " fhe took a pleasure in " her moderation , and in feeing her family the victim of , " it . " This Voltaire ...
... lord Bolingbroke , often re- proached her aunt for doing fo little for her family ; and once told her in fome anger , that " fhe took a pleasure in " her moderation , and in feeing her family the victim of , " it . " This Voltaire ...
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... Lord Bacon , which was then prefixed to an edition of his works ; but with so much more knowledge of history than of science , that , when he afterwards undertook the Life of Marlborough , fome were apprehenfive , left he should for get ...
... Lord Bacon , which was then prefixed to an edition of his works ; but with so much more knowledge of history than of science , that , when he afterwards undertook the Life of Marlborough , fome were apprehenfive , left he should for get ...
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... Lord Bolingbroke left him the pro- . perty of his works , which he published in five vols . 4to . MALPIGHI ( MARCELLUS ) , an Italian phyfician and pighi's life , anatomift , was born March 10 , 1628 , at Crevalcuore , near written by ...
... Lord Bolingbroke left him the pro- . perty of his works , which he published in five vols . 4to . MALPIGHI ( MARCELLUS ) , an Italian phyfician and pighi's life , anatomift , was born March 10 , 1628 , at Crevalcuore , near written by ...
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... lord " C. printed in the London Journal of July the 27th , 1723. ' The author wrote a vindication of his book from the impu- tations caft upon it in that Letter , and in the prefentment of the grand jury ; which vindication he published ...
... lord " C. printed in the London Journal of July the 27th , 1723. ' The author wrote a vindication of his book from the impu- tations caft upon it in that Letter , and in the prefentment of the grand jury ; which vindication he published ...
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... lord Harvey , takes occafion ' to interfere in the contro- verfy between Mandeville and Berkeley , in the following manner . " The fecond dialogue in the Minute philofopher , . " fays he , defigned chiefly for an answer to the fable of ...
... lord Harvey , takes occafion ' to interfere in the contro- verfy between Mandeville and Berkeley , in the following manner . " The fecond dialogue in the Minute philofopher , . " fays he , defigned chiefly for an answer to the fable of ...
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