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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... thing . A moderate penfion , which Lewis XIV . gave to madam de Caylus , was almost all her fortune ; and madam de Villette had nothing but expectations . This lady , who was after- wards married to our celebrated lord Bolingbroke ...
... thing . A moderate penfion , which Lewis XIV . gave to madam de Caylus , was almost all her fortune ; and madam de Villette had nothing but expectations . This lady , who was after- wards married to our celebrated lord Bolingbroke ...
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... things in God . And hence he is led to think and speak meanly of human knowledge , either as it lies in written books , or in the book of nature , compared with that light which difplays itself from the ideal world and by attending to ...
... things in God . And hence he is led to think and speak meanly of human knowledge , either as it lies in written books , or in the book of nature , compared with that light which difplays itself from the ideal world and by attending to ...
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... things he publishes coft him GUARINI , " fo dear , that , were I in his cafe , I would pitch upon fome Note G. " other employment to ferve my neighbours , and fhould not " think that God required that from me . " This poet was a man of ...
... things he publishes coft him GUARINI , " fo dear , that , were I in his cafe , I would pitch upon fome Note G. " other employment to ferve my neighbours , and fhould not " think that God required that from me . " This poet was a man of ...
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... things which he does not fay , and " anfwers them . - The Letter to Dion amply fets forth the " want of candour in the Minute philofopher , with regard " to the author of The fable of the bees ; who therein de- " fends himself with that ...
... things which he does not fay , and " anfwers them . - The Letter to Dion amply fets forth the " want of candour in the Minute philofopher , with regard " to the author of The fable of the bees ; who therein de- " fends himself with that ...
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... things co - eternal , and co - equal , namely , God and the devil ; that all good proceeded from " the former , and all evil from the latter ; that the good being " was the author of the New Teftament , and the bad of " the Old ; that ...
... things co - eternal , and co - equal , namely , God and the devil ; that all good proceeded from " the former , and all evil from the latter ; that the good being " was the author of the New Teftament , and the bad of " the Old ; that ...
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