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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... written a poem , in order to difpute the prize of elo- quence , and he believed the victory was unjustly adjudged to another . This made him refolve to afk the minim's habit , ' and he had no occafion to afk it long ; for , having ...
... written a poem , in order to difpute the prize of elo- quence , and he believed the victory was unjustly adjudged to another . This made him refolve to afk the minim's habit , ' and he had no occafion to afk it long ; for , having ...
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... writing books , making experiments , and reading lectures . He was perpetually confulted by the most eminent ... written by F. Saguens , and printed at Touloufe in 1697 . MAIMBOURG B 2 It MAIMBOURG ( LEWIS ) , a man celebrated in ...
... writing books , making experiments , and reading lectures . He was perpetually confulted by the most eminent ... written by F. Saguens , and printed at Touloufe in 1697 . MAIMBOURG B 2 It MAIMBOURG ( LEWIS ) , a man celebrated in ...
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... writing . His hiftories , fays he , MAIM- are very agreeably written , contain many lively ftrokes , and a great variety of occafional inftructions . There are few hiftorians , even among those who write better , and 66 are more learned ...
... writing . His hiftories , fays he , MAIM- are very agreeably written , contain many lively ftrokes , and a great variety of occafional inftructions . There are few hiftorians , even among those who write better , and 66 are more learned ...
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... written in Arabic originally , but are now extant in Hebrew translations only . The most confiderable are his Jad , which is likewife called " Mifchne . Terah , " his " More Novochim , " and his " Peruschim , or Commentaries upon the ...
... written in Arabic originally , but are now extant in Hebrew translations only . The most confiderable are his Jad , which is likewife called " Mifchne . Terah , " his " More Novochim , " and his " Peruschim , or Commentaries upon the ...
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... written against M. Arnaud , but difengaged it from that air of difpute , which is not agree- able to every reader . In 1697 , he published his " Traité de l'amour de Dieu . " When the doctrine of the new myf- tics began to make a noise ...
... written against M. Arnaud , but difengaged it from that air of difpute , which is not agree- able to every reader . In 1697 , he published his " Traité de l'amour de Dieu . " When the doctrine of the new myf- tics began to make a noise ...
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