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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... himself . Here Pintur richio got him to be employed in making the cartoons for the pictures of the library ; but he had scarcely finished one , before he was tempted to remove to Florence by the great noife which Leonardo da Vinci's and ...
... himself . Here Pintur richio got him to be employed in making the cartoons for the pictures of the library ; but he had scarcely finished one , before he was tempted to remove to Florence by the great noife which Leonardo da Vinci's and ...
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... himself afterwards to write in French , and fucceeded very well in that language . He wrote in it feveral treatifes upon polite literature , and upon pious fubjects , which met with a good reception from the public . The treatises on ...
... himself afterwards to write in French , and fucceeded very well in that language . He wrote in it feveral treatifes upon polite literature , and upon pious fubjects , which met with a good reception from the public . The treatises on ...
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... himself heartily to mathematics and mufic , in both which he became a good proficient . In 1685 , his father died ; and two months after , the edict of Nantes being revoked , Rapin with his mother and brothers retired to a country ...
... himself heartily to mathematics and mufic , in both which he became a good proficient . In 1685 , his father died ; and two months after , the edict of Nantes being revoked , Rapin with his mother and brothers retired to a country ...
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... himself in 1595 , deftroyed the city of San Jofeph , and took the Spanish gos ; vernor . Upon his return , he wrote a difcourfe of his difcoveries in Guiana , which was printed in 1596 , 4to , and afterwards inferted in the third volume ...
... himself in 1595 , deftroyed the city of San Jofeph , and took the Spanish gos ; vernor . Upon his return , he wrote a difcourfe of his difcoveries in Guiana , which was printed in 1596 , 4to , and afterwards inferted in the third volume ...
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... himself with what he met with about Cambridge , but extended his purfuits throughout the greateft part of England and Wales , and part of Scotland . In thefe journies of fimp- ling , though he fometimes went alone , yet he had com ...
... himself with what he met with about Cambridge , but extended his purfuits throughout the greateft part of England and Wales , and part of Scotland . In thefe journies of fimp- ling , though he fometimes went alone , yet he had com ...
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