A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation in the World, Particularly the British and Irish ...The Proprietors, 1795 |
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... divine of Scotland ; and after her marriage entirely diverted from her ftudies for many years , by attending upon the duties of a wife and a mother . However , her zeal for Locke's character and writings drew her again into public ...
... divine of Scotland ; and after her marriage entirely diverted from her ftudies for many years , by attending upon the duties of a wife and a mother . However , her zeal for Locke's character and writings drew her again into public ...
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... divine , was born in the parish of St. Antholin , London , in 1466 , and was the eldeft fon of Sir Henry Colet , knight , twice lord mayor , who had , besides him , twenty - one children . In 1483 he was fent to Magdalen college , in ...
... divine , was born in the parish of St. Antholin , London , in 1466 , and was the eldeft fon of Sir Henry Colet , knight , twice lord mayor , who had , besides him , twenty - one children . In 1483 he was fent to Magdalen college , in ...
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... divine , was born at Stow Qui , in Cambridge fhire , September 23 , 1650. His father , Jeremy Collier , was a divine , and a confiderable linguift , and fome time master of the free - fchool at Ipfwich , in Suffolk . He was educated ...
... divine , was born at Stow Qui , in Cambridge fhire , September 23 , 1650. His father , Jeremy Collier , was a divine , and a confiderable linguift , and fome time master of the free - fchool at Ipfwich , in Suffolk . He was educated ...
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... divine , and born at Wood Eaton , near Oxford , in March 1624. At fixteen years of age , he was put apprentice to a bookfeller at Oxford , but foon left that trade , and was employed as clerk under Mr. John Mar , one of the clerks of ...
... divine , and born at Wood Eaton , near Oxford , in March 1624. At fixteen years of age , he was put apprentice to a bookfeller at Oxford , but foon left that trade , and was employed as clerk under Mr. John Mar , one of the clerks of ...
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... But this work never appeared . In 1710 he published " A Vindication of the Divine Attributes , in fome Remarks on the Archbishop of Dublin's Sermon , in 58 LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS . the following pieces: 1. A Letter to the learned ...
... But this work never appeared . In 1710 he published " A Vindication of the Divine Attributes , in fome Remarks on the Archbishop of Dublin's Sermon , in 58 LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS . the following pieces: 1. A Letter to the learned ...
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Página 376 - He enjoyed an uncommon share of health, insomuch that in the course of his long life he never was confined more than three days to his bed. He often declared that he had no idea of that most distressing pain called the headach.
Página 166 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
Página 13 - Clive was complimented by his friends on his behaviour on this occasion, he made the following remark : " The man has given me my life, and I have no right in future to mention his behaviour at the card-table; although I will never pay him, nor ever keep him company.
Página 65 - By degrees I gained his confidence ; and one day was admitted to him when he was immured by a bailiff, that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of Aristotle's Poetics...
Página 279 - The original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England examined and asserted...
Página 388 - Cheapside, and to be left there till further orders. In the mean time the Abbey was lighted up, the ground opened, the choir attending, and the bishop waiting some hours to no purpose for the corpse.
Página 129 - Corneille, whofe brother he was. He was a member of the French academy, and of the academy of Infcriptions. He difcovered, when he was young, a...
Página 73 - Common-prayer:" as, i. A Scholaftical Hiftory of the primitive and general Ufe of Liturgies in the Chriftian Church ; together with an Anfwer to Mr. David Clarkfon's late Difcourfe concerning Liturgies, 1690; dedicated to king William and queen Mary. 2. A Companion to the Temple; or, A Help to Devotion in the Ufe of the...
Página 143 - 'The Argument made by the Command of the Houfe of Commons, out of the Acts of Parliament and Authority of Law expounding the fame, at a Conference with the Lords, concerning the Liberty of the Perfon of every Freeman." 4. " A Brief Difcourfe concerning the Power of the Peers and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature.
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