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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... manner . Ralegh landed at Ply- mouth in July 1618 ; and , though he heard the court was exafperated by the Spanish ambaffador , firmly refolved to go to London . He was arrefted on his journey thither ; and finding , as he approached ...
... manner . Ralegh landed at Ply- mouth in July 1618 ; and , though he heard the court was exafperated by the Spanish ambaffador , firmly refolved to go to London . He was arrefted on his journey thither ; and finding , as he approached ...
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... manner left def- titute , conceived thoughts of marriage ; and accordingly , in June 1673 , did actually marry a gentlewoman of about twenty years of age , the daughter of Mr. Oakeley of Launton in Oxfordshire . Towards the end of this ...
... manner left def- titute , conceived thoughts of marriage ; and accordingly , in June 1673 , did actually marry a gentlewoman of about twenty years of age , the daughter of Mr. Oakeley of Launton in Oxfordshire . Towards the end of this ...
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... manner from what it ufually is , not as a bare re- cital of facts and fpeeches , but as a picture of human nature under its various modes of wifdom , folly , knavery , and madnefs . He wrote a piece with this view , " De l'ufage de l ...
... manner from what it ufually is , not as a bare re- cital of facts and fpeeches , but as a picture of human nature under its various modes of wifdom , folly , knavery , and madnefs . He wrote a piece with this view , " De l'ufage de l ...
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... manner , which is not always to be found among thofe who have made only the fciences their ftudy . He is reprefented alfo as a man of an amia- ble compofition , and with qualities to make him beloved as well as admired . He left a great ...
... manner , which is not always to be found among thofe who have made only the fciences their ftudy . He is reprefented alfo as a man of an amia- ble compofition , and with qualities to make him beloved as well as admired . He left a great ...
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... manner , and a happy way of making himself un- derstood , he drew all forts of people ; the magiftrates , the learned , the ecclefiaftics , and the very women , who now all affected to abjure the ancient philofophy . In 1680 , he ...
... manner , and a happy way of making himself un- derstood , he drew all forts of people ; the magiftrates , the learned , the ecclefiaftics , and the very women , who now all affected to abjure the ancient philofophy . In 1680 , he ...
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