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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... wrote the Hiftory of Arianifm , of the Iconoclastes , of the Croifades , of the Schifm of the Weft , of the Schifm of the Greeks , of the Decay of the Empire , of the Ligue , of " Lutheranifm , of Calvinifm , the Pontificate of St. Leo ...
... wrote the Hiftory of Arianifm , of the Iconoclastes , of the Croifades , of the Schifm of the Weft , of the Schifm of the Greeks , of the Decay of the Empire , of the Ligue , of " Lutheranifm , of Calvinifm , the Pontificate of St. Leo ...
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... wrote to the king immediately ; her letters charmed him , and this was the origin of her fortune ; her own perfonal merit effected all the reft . The king bought her the lands of Maintenon in 1679 , which was the only eftate fhe ever ...
... wrote to the king immediately ; her letters charmed him , and this was the origin of her fortune ; her own perfonal merit effected all the reft . The king bought her the lands of Maintenon in 1679 , which was the only eftate fhe ever ...
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... wrote those two ftanzas above thirty fur le frag- years before Richelieu , to whom he addreffed them , was card . Riche- " made a cardinal ; and that he changed only the four firft lieu . " verses of the firft ftanza , to accommodate ...
... wrote those two ftanzas above thirty fur le frag- years before Richelieu , to whom he addreffed them , was card . Riche- " made a cardinal ; and that he changed only the four firft lieu . " verses of the firft ftanza , to accommodate ...
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... wrote a Life of Lord Bacon , which was then prefixed to an edition of his works ; but with so much more knowledge of history than of science , that , when he afterwards undertook the Life of Marlborough , fome were apprehenfive , left ...
... wrote a Life of Lord Bacon , which was then prefixed to an edition of his works ; but with so much more knowledge of history than of science , that , when he afterwards undertook the Life of Marlborough , fome were apprehenfive , left ...
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... wrote an Itinerary , " or account of his travels , in and Latin . Voffius fays , that he has feen it in Italian ; and adds , that he knows it to be in Belgic and German . He gives us alfo the infcription upon his monument at Liege ...
... wrote an Itinerary , " or account of his travels , in and Latin . Voffius fays , that he has feen it in Italian ; and adds , that he knows it to be in Belgic and German . He gives us alfo the infcription upon his monument at Liege ...
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