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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... volume of Hakluyt's voyages . The fame year , he was appointed one of the chief commanders in the expedition to Cadiz ; and was afterwards rear - admiral in the ifland voyages . He had a great fhare in defeating the treasonable defigns ...
... volume of Hakluyt's voyages . The fame year , he was appointed one of the chief commanders in the expedition to Cadiz ; and was afterwards rear - admiral in the ifland voyages . He had a great fhare in defeating the treasonable defigns ...
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... volume of which was pub- lished in 1614 , folio , and deduces things to the end of the Macedonian empire . As to the ftory of the fecond volume of this hiftory , which , it is faid , he burned because the firft had fold fo flowly that ...
... volume of which was pub- lished in 1614 , folio , and deduces things to the end of the Macedonian empire . As to the ftory of the fecond volume of this hiftory , which , it is faid , he burned because the firft had fold fo flowly that ...
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... volume of which was pub- lished in 1686 , the fecond in 1687 , and the third fome years after . To the compiling of this hiftory , many learned and ingenious men gave their helping hands particularly Sir Hans Sloane and Dr. Tancred ...
... volume of which was pub- lished in 1686 , the fecond in 1687 , and the third fome years after . To the compiling of this hiftory , many learned and ingenious men gave their helping hands particularly Sir Hans Sloane and Dr. Tancred ...
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... volumes of poems , in French , Latin , Italian , and Spanish . He tranflated into French , Tully " De Divinatione , & de Finibus ; " and Rodrigue's " Treatife of Chriftian perfection , " from the Spanish . He died in 1713 , aged 82 ...
... volumes of poems , in French , Latin , Italian , and Spanish . He tranflated into French , Tully " De Divinatione , & de Finibus ; " and Rodrigue's " Treatife of Chriftian perfection , " from the Spanish . He died in 1713 , aged 82 ...
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... volumes . He continued Pla- tina's " Lives of the Popes , " from 1471 to his own time . He tranflated from the Spanish of Garcilaffo de la Vega into English , " The Royal Commentaries of Peru , in " two parts , " folio ; and there goes ...
... volumes . He continued Pla- tina's " Lives of the Popes , " from 1471 to his own time . He tranflated from the Spanish of Garcilaffo de la Vega into English , " The Royal Commentaries of Peru , in " two parts , " folio ; and there goes ...
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