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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... religious minim , and one of the greateft philofophers of his age , was born at Toulouse , of an ancient and noble ... religious exercises . He was ftrongly determined to a religious life , by an affront which he received when he was ...
... religious minim , and one of the greateft philofophers of his age , was born at Toulouse , of an ancient and noble ... religious exercises . He was ftrongly determined to a religious life , by an affront which he received when he was ...
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... religion of the Bible , or rather the religion of the Talmud , with the vile allay of human reason , and would gladly have burnt both him and his book . In the mean time , the wifer part of both Jews and Chriftians have always ...
... religion of the Bible , or rather the religion of the Talmud , with the vile allay of human reason , and would gladly have burnt both him and his book . In the mean time , the wifer part of both Jews and Chriftians have always ...
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... into the affections of her coufin , with whom he had one common nurse and to omit nothing that might please them , the expreffed a great • defire to be inftructed in the religion of her ancestors defire ΜΑΙΝΤΕΝΟΝ . • ...
... into the affections of her coufin , with whom he had one common nurse and to omit nothing that might please them , the expreffed a great • defire to be inftructed in the religion of her ancestors defire ΜΑΙΝΤΕΝΟΝ . • ...
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... religion of her ancestors . She was impatient to have fome conversation with minifters , and to frequent their fermons ; fo that in a fhort time fhe be- came firmly attached to the Proteftant religion . In the mean time madam de ...
... religion of her ancestors . She was impatient to have fome conversation with minifters , and to frequent their fermons ; fo that in a fhort time fhe be- came firmly attached to the Proteftant religion . In the mean time madam de ...
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... religion & de la morale de J. C. " Paris , 1676. " He was moved , it is faid , to write this piece , at the defire of the duke de Chevreufe , to fhew the con- fiftency and agreement between his philofophy and religion . His Traité de la ...
... religion & de la morale de J. C. " Paris , 1676. " He was moved , it is faid , to write this piece , at the defire of the duke de Chevreufe , to fhew the con- fiftency and agreement between his philofophy and religion . His Traité de la ...
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