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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... Italy by the way of Tirol , where the marefchal de Villeroy , at that time prifoner gave Rapin a letter for the cardinal d'Etrees , when at Venice . Their travels being finifhed , which put an end to his employment , he re- turned to ...
... Italy by the way of Tirol , where the marefchal de Villeroy , at that time prifoner gave Rapin a letter for the cardinal d'Etrees , when at Venice . Their travels being finifhed , which put an end to his employment , he re- turned to ...
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... Italian , Spanish , and Eng- lish languages : and had also a very competent knowledge of the Greek and Latin . He spent all his leifure - hours in reading , and converfing with fuch as led a regular life , and loved to reason and ...
... Italian , Spanish , and Eng- lish languages : and had also a very competent knowledge of the Greek and Latin . He spent all his leifure - hours in reading , and converfing with fuch as led a regular life , and loved to reason and ...
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... Italian princes , palaces , and paintings , 1735 , now in the Society's Mufeum . 1740 , a large and well - written history of the life and writings of the great botanift , his namefake , by Mr. Dale , which was read , and approved ...
... Italian princes , palaces , and paintings , 1735 , now in the Society's Mufeum . 1740 , a large and well - written history of the life and writings of the great botanift , his namefake , by Mr. Dale , which was read , and approved ...
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... Italian phyfician and very po- lite fcholar , was defcended from a noble family , and born at Arezzo in Tufcany , 1626. His firft ftudies were made Niceron , at Florence , whence he removed to Pifa , and there was tom . III . admitted ...
... Italian phyfician and very po- lite fcholar , was defcended from a noble family , and born at Arezzo in Tufcany , 1626. His firft ftudies were made Niceron , at Florence , whence he removed to Pifa , and there was tom . III . admitted ...
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... Italy ; of la Crufcą at Florence , of the Gelati at Bologna , and of the Arca- diens at Rome . He was fubject to the falling fickness in his latter years ; yet neither abandoned books , nor his bufinefs . He wrote upon vipers , and upon ...
... Italy ; of la Crufcą at Florence , of the Gelati at Bologna , and of the Arca- diens at Rome . He was fubject to the falling fickness in his latter years ; yet neither abandoned books , nor his bufinefs . He wrote upon vipers , and upon ...
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