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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... means of M. de Fieu- bet , first prefident of the parliament of Touloufe ; but the father humbly expreffed his defire to pafs the remainder of his days in the obfcurity of the cloyfter , where he had put on the habit of the order ; fo ...
... means of M. de Fieu- bet , first prefident of the parliament of Touloufe ; but the father humbly expreffed his defire to pafs the remainder of his days in the obfcurity of the cloyfter , where he had put on the habit of the order ; fo ...
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... means was become a very faithful and loyal fubject of that king ; that he was now " almost feventy - fix years old ; that his father and mother being very rich had founded a college for the Jefuits at Nancy , fifty years ago ; and that ...
... means was become a very faithful and loyal fubject of that king ; that he was now " almost feventy - fix years old ; that his father and mother being very rich had founded a college for the Jefuits at Nancy , fifty years ago ; and that ...
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... means imaginable , to render herself neceflary and agreeable to a perfon , upon whom fhe faw fhe muft depend for every thing . More especially , fhe made it her bufinefs to infinuate herfelf into the affections of her coufin , with whom ...
... means imaginable , to render herself neceflary and agreeable to a perfon , upon whom fhe faw fhe muft depend for every thing . More especially , fhe made it her bufinefs to infinuate herfelf into the affections of her coufin , with whom ...
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... means of purchafing immenfe ones . Here fhe had a magni- ficent caffle , in a moft beautiful country , not more than ... mean and burlefque idea . A woman , whofe very name was a jeft , must have detracted from the refpect and veneration ...
... means of purchafing immenfe ones . Here fhe had a magni- ficent caffle , in a moft beautiful country , not more than ... mean and burlefque idea . A woman , whofe very name was a jeft , must have detracted from the refpect and veneration ...
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... means the cafe ; the vo- lume of 1719 being equally neceffary to VOL . IX . complete the fet as that of 1733 , which is a revifion of all the former volumes . The whole work , when properly bound , confifts , ad libitum , either of five ...
... means the cafe ; the vo- lume of 1719 being equally neceffary to VOL . IX . complete the fet as that of 1733 , which is a revifion of all the former volumes . The whole work , when properly bound , confifts , ad libitum , either of five ...
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