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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... religion . They raised fuch clamours , that the caufe was carried before the parliament of Paris : but the moment they perceived it would be examined equitably , and according to the ufual forms , they by their intrigues took it from ...
... religion . They raised fuch clamours , that the caufe was carried before the parliament of Paris : but the moment they perceived it would be examined equitably , and according to the ufual forms , they by their intrigues took it from ...
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... religion , but after- wards deferted it . He began to difcover his new prin- ciples , by removing the images from the chapel of his college of Prele . This was in 1552 ; when fuch a pro- fecution was raised against him by the ...
... religion , but after- wards deferted it . He began to difcover his new prin- ciples , by removing the images from the chapel of his college of Prele . This was in 1552 ; when fuch a pro- fecution was raised against him by the ...
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... religion , but at the fame time a little obftinate , and given to contradiction . The Proteftant ministers did not love him much , for he made himfelf a kind of head of a party , to change the difcipline of the Proteftant churches ...
... religion , but at the fame time a little obftinate , and given to contradiction . The Proteftant ministers did not love him much , for he made himfelf a kind of head of a party , to change the difcipline of the Proteftant churches ...
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... religion . Philibert de Rapin , Hiftory of his great grandfather , fell a martyr to his zeal for Pro- England . testantism ; which expofed him fo much to the indigna- tion of the Roman catholics , and particularly to that of the ...
... religion . Philibert de Rapin , Hiftory of his great grandfather , fell a martyr to his zeal for Pro- England . testantism ; which expofed him fo much to the indigna- tion of the Roman catholics , and particularly to that of the ...
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... religion , by the French Catholies then in London ; and especially by the abbé , who , though he treated him with the utmost complaifance , always turned the discourse to controverfy . Having no hopes of any fettlement in England at ...
... religion , by the French Catholies then in London ; and especially by the abbé , who , though he treated him with the utmost complaifance , always turned the discourse to controverfy . Having no hopes of any fettlement in England at ...
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