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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... father Bouhours , was published foon after . He is there reprefented , and there is reafon to think defervedly , as poffeffed of the finest qualities , that can adorn a man of probity and a good Chriftian . We find there , among other ...
... father Bouhours , was published foon after . He is there reprefented , and there is reafon to think defervedly , as poffeffed of the finest qualities , that can adorn a man of probity and a good Chriftian . We find there , among other ...
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... father Va- vaffor , who wrote against his " Reflections on Ariftotle's Poetics ; " yet pretended to be ignorant , as there was no name to them , that Rapin was the author . Rapin had faid , in those Reflections , that " it is fo unufual ...
... father Va- vaffor , who wrote against his " Reflections on Ariftotle's Poetics ; " yet pretended to be ignorant , as there was no name to them , that Rapin was the author . Rapin had faid , in those Reflections , that " it is fo unufual ...
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... father's leave he quitted the pro- feffion of advocate for that of arms . He had before given proofs of a military difpofition : for he had fought a duel or two , in which he had acquitted himfelf very gallantly . His father at firft ...
... father's leave he quitted the pro- feffion of advocate for that of arms . He had before given proofs of a military difpofition : for he had fought a duel or two , in which he had acquitted himfelf very gallantly . His father at firft ...
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... father's honour ; whose " faith , if he owned any , was grounded upon school divinity . Whereupon the chid him , who was , by his own confeffion , ever after branded with the title of " Atheist , though a known affertor of God and provi ...
... father's honour ; whose " faith , if he owned any , was grounded upon school divinity . Whereupon the chid him , who was , by his own confeffion , ever after branded with the title of " Atheist , though a known affertor of God and provi ...
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... father : but Paul Jovius re- lates , that he died of the plague . 66 He did great fervice to aftronomy , as well as his master Purbachius . The latter was born at Peurbach , a town upon the confines of Auftria and Bavaria , in 1423 ...
... father : but Paul Jovius re- lates , that he died of the plague . 66 He did great fervice to aftronomy , as well as his master Purbachius . The latter was born at Peurbach , a town upon the confines of Auftria and Bavaria , in 1423 ...
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