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 |
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... language making them efteem it not only barbarous , but antichriftian . This we collect from a Greek epiftle of Budæus to Rabelais , in which he praifes him highly for his great knowledge in that tongue , and exclaims against the ...
... language making them efteem it not only barbarous , but antichriftian . This we collect from a Greek epiftle of Budæus to Rabelais , in which he praifes him highly for his great knowledge in that tongue , and exclaims against the ...
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... languages . 6. " L'Hiftoire de M. de Turenne , in " French and English . " 7. " Several fmall pieces of poe- try , in English . " 8. " Two Letters in French , to M. " Racine the fon , upon the true fentiments of Mr. Pope , 46 in his ...
... languages . 6. " L'Hiftoire de M. de Turenne , in " French and English . " 7. " Several fmall pieces of poe- try , in English . " 8. " Two Letters in French , to M. " Racine the fon , upon the true fentiments of Mr. Pope , 46 in his ...
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... 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 polite literature , having been publifhed at various times , were ...
... 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 polite literature , having been publifhed at various times , were ...
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... languages : and had also a very competent knowledge of the Greek and Latin . He spent all his leifure - hours in reading , and converfing with fuch as led a regular life , and loved to reason and reflect on things . * He lived to ...
... languages : and had also a very competent knowledge of the Greek and Latin . He spent all his leifure - hours in reading , and converfing with fuch as led a regular life , and loved to reason and reflect on things . * He lived to ...
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... language even to the prefent age . ? 44 Some have fancied , that the merit of this work pro- cured his releafement from the Tower ; but there feems little foundation for that opinion , fince king James is known to have expreffed fome ...
... language even to the prefent age . ? 44 Some have fancied , that the merit of this work pro- cured his releafement from the Tower ; but there feems little foundation for that opinion , fince king James is known to have expreffed fome ...
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