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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... most eminent philofophers ; and he had a thoufand anfwers to make , either by word of mouth , or by writing . Never was mortal lefs inclined to idlenefs . He is faid to have ftudied even in his fleep ; for his very dreams employed him ...
... most eminent philofophers ; and he had a thoufand anfwers to make , either by word of mouth , or by writing . Never was mortal lefs inclined to idlenefs . He is faid to have ftudied even in his fleep ; for his very dreams employed him ...
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Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation ... most known , were the feveral hiftories he published . He wrote the Hiftory of Arianifm , of the Iconoclastes , of ...
Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation ... most known , were the feveral hiftories he published . He wrote the Hiftory of Arianifm , of the Iconoclastes , of ...
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... most perfect and accomplished among the imitators of Virgil ; and has alfo written , in the fame metre , the fame number of books , and in the three different kinds , to which that illuftrious poet ap- plied himfelf . Thus we have of ...
... most perfect and accomplished among the imitators of Virgil ; and has alfo written , in the fame metre , the fame number of books , and in the three different kinds , to which that illuftrious poet ap- plied himfelf . Thus we have of ...
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... most renowned patriot in antiquity , and " the most infamous incendiary , were in the fame way of " thinking , and actuated by the fame paffion ? If it would " not , the conclufion is obvious ; and he muft either allow , " that it would ...
... most renowned patriot in antiquity , and " the most infamous incendiary , were in the fame way of " thinking , and actuated by the fame paffion ? If it would " not , the conclufion is obvious ; and he muft either allow , " that it would ...
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... most abandoned profligacy ; " till at last this degeneracy , enervated as they were both " in body and mind , brought them to flavery , decay , and " ruin . But by this gradation it fhould feem to me , not " that they were rich and ...
... most abandoned profligacy ; " till at last this degeneracy , enervated as they were both " in body and mind , brought them to flavery , decay , and " ruin . But by this gradation it fhould feem to me , not " that they were rich and ...
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