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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... took the book , and threw it into the fire . Racine found means to get another copy , which alfo underwent the fame fate ; and af- ter that a third , which , having a prodigious memory , he got by heart and then , carrying it to his ...
... took the book , and threw it into the fire . Racine found means to get another copy , which alfo underwent the fame fate ; and af- ter that a third , which , having a prodigious memory , he got by heart and then , carrying it to his ...
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... took a refolu- tion to quit the theatre for ever : although he was ftill in full vigour , being not more than thirty - eight ; and the only perfon , who was capable of confoling Paris for the old age of Corneille . But he had imbibed in ...
... took a refolu- tion to quit the theatre for ever : although he was ftill in full vigour , being not more than thirty - eight ; and the only perfon , who was capable of confoling Paris for the old age of Corneille . But he had imbibed in ...
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... took to wife the daughter of a treasurer of France for Amiens , by whom he had feven children . His next concern was to reconcile himself , as he did very fincerely , with the gentlemen of Port - Royal , whofe cenfures on dramatic ...
... took to wife the daughter of a treasurer of France for Amiens , by whom he had feven children . His next concern was to reconcile himself , as he did very fincerely , with the gentlemen of Port - Royal , whofe cenfures on dramatic ...
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... took his firft degree in arts ; but no publica- fellowship becoming vacant there , he removed to Lincoln college , where he was elected into one . He applied him- felf to phyfic , and ran through the neceffary courses of botany ...
... took his firft degree in arts ; but no publica- fellowship becoming vacant there , he removed to Lincoln college , where he was elected into one . He applied him- felf to phyfic , and ran through the neceffary courses of botany ...
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... took from him 100 ounces of blood ; and on the 31ft he took a ftrange refo- lution of being removed to Kenfington , notwithstand- ing his weaknefs , from which the moft preffing entreaties of his friends could not divert him . In the ...
... took from him 100 ounces of blood ; and on the 31ft he took a ftrange refo- lution of being removed to Kenfington , notwithstand- ing his weaknefs , from which the moft preffing entreaties of his friends could not divert him . In the ...
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