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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... Most Eminent Perfons IN EVERY NATION ; PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH AND IRISH ; From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the present Period . WHEREIN Their remarkable ACTIONS and SUFFERINGS , Their VIRTUES , PARTS , and LEARNING , ARE ...
... Most Eminent Perfons IN EVERY NATION ; PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH AND IRISH ; From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the present Period . WHEREIN Their remarkable ACTIONS and SUFFERINGS , Their VIRTUES , PARTS , and LEARNING , ARE ...
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... most furprifing joy on that account : they made a greater noise in proportion , than the proudest princes for the taking of a confiderable city , or the winning of a very important victory . The fentence of the three judges was ...
... most furprifing joy on that account : they made a greater noise in proportion , than the proudest princes for the taking of a confiderable city , or the winning of a very important victory . The fentence of the three judges was ...
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... most pregnant wits of his time , and greatly admired by all the poets and men of parts . He was diftinguished early for an uncom- mon force of genius ; having , when he was not more than ten years old , written " The Hiftory of the ...
... most pregnant wits of his time , and greatly admired by all the poets and men of parts . He was diftinguished early for an uncom- mon force of genius ; having , when he was not more than ten years old , written " The Hiftory of the ...
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... most of the eminent mafters in his time being ambitious of working under him ; and he never went out without a crowd of artifts and others , who attended and followed him purely through refpect . Cardinal Bi- biano offered him his niece ...
... most of the eminent mafters in his time being ambitious of working under him ; and he never went out without a crowd of artifts and others , who attended and followed him purely through refpect . Cardinal Bi- biano offered him his niece ...
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... most perfect , the happieft , and moft beautiful , of " the age he wrote in , majeftic , clear , and manly ; and he appears every where fo fuperior , rather than un- equal , to his fubject , that the fpirit of Rome and Athens feems to ...
... most perfect , the happieft , and moft beautiful , of " the age he wrote in , majeftic , clear , and manly ; and he appears every where fo fuperior , rather than un- equal , to his fubject , that the fpirit of Rome and Athens feems to ...
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