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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... reason , why all the candidates for degrees in phyfic there are , upon their admiffion to them , formally invefted with a robe , which Rabelais left : this ceremony having been inftituted in honour of him . In 1532 , he published at ...
... reason , why all the candidates for degrees in phyfic there are , upon their admiffion to them , formally invefted with a robe , which Rabelais left : this ceremony having been inftituted in honour of him . In 1532 , he published at ...
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... reason for what they fay ; that is , the truth lies be- tween them both . Rabelais certainly intended to fatirise the manners of his age , as appears plainly enough from the general turn and nature of his work ; but , from a cer- tain ...
... reason for what they fay ; that is , the truth lies be- tween them both . Rabelais certainly intended to fatirise the manners of his age , as appears plainly enough from the general turn and nature of his work ; but , from a cer- tain ...
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... to do a rigorous penance for thofe he had written ; and actually formed a defign of becoming a Carthufian Louis XIV . friar . Had not Voltaire good reason friar . RACIN E. Vifionaires, & Imaginaires," had thrown out occafionally ...
... to do a rigorous penance for thofe he had written ; and actually formed a defign of becoming a Carthufian Louis XIV . friar . Had not Voltaire good reason friar . RACIN E. Vifionaires, & Imaginaires," had thrown out occafionally ...
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... reason to say , that " he was by " far a greater poet , than philofopher ? " His religious di- Siecle de rector , however , not fo mad , but a good deal wifer than he , tom . ii . advised him to think more moderately , and to take ...
... reason to say , that " he was by " far a greater poet , than philofopher ? " His religious di- Siecle de rector , however , not fo mad , but a good deal wifer than he , tom . ii . advised him to think more moderately , and to take ...
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... reason and reflect on things . * He lived to publish the eighth volume of hiftory which ends with the death of Charles I. The two remain- ing volumes , which bring the hiftory down to the pro- clamation of William and Mary , came out in ...
... reason and reflect on things . * He lived to publish the eighth volume of hiftory which ends with the death of Charles I. The two remain- ing volumes , which bring the hiftory down to the pro- clamation of William and Mary , came out in ...
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