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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... favour of the teftator ; for Julius Capitolinus relates , that , when the expediency of divorcing Faustina was repelented to that emperor , he declared he could not do it , without giving up at the fame time the empire , which hẹ held ...
... favour of the teftator ; for Julius Capitolinus relates , that , when the expediency of divorcing Faustina was repelented to that emperor , he declared he could not do it , without giving up at the fame time the empire , which hẹ held ...
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... favour that afforded her the means of purchafing immenfe ones . Here fhe had a magni- ficent caffle , in a moft beautiful country , not more than four- teen leagues from Paris , and ten from Verfailles . The king , feeing her extremely ...
... favour that afforded her the means of purchafing immenfe ones . Here fhe had a magni- ficent caffle , in a moft beautiful country , not more than four- teen leagues from Paris , and ten from Verfailles . The king , feeing her extremely ...
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... favour ; but I proteft to you , my dear girl ,, " that every one of thefe conditions leaves in the mind a " difmal vacuity . " If any thing , fays Voltaire , could fhew Siecle de the vanity of ambition , it would certainly be this ...
... favour ; but I proteft to you , my dear girl ,, " that every one of thefe conditions leaves in the mind a " difmal vacuity . " If any thing , fays Voltaire , could fhew Siecle de the vanity of ambition , it would certainly be this ...
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... favour of which he always entertained high prejudices , al though he affected outwardly to defpife it . Mufic and paint- ing were alfo among the arts which he exercifed himself in for his amufement . He afterwards became a foldier , and ...
... favour of which he always entertained high prejudices , al though he affected outwardly to defpife it . Mufic and paint- ing were alfo among the arts which he exercifed himself in for his amufement . He afterwards became a foldier , and ...
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... favour of the em- peror Nicephorus , who was a friend to that fect , that at last , being perfecuted by the emprefs Theodora , the wife of Bafil , they were in a condition to build towns , and to take up arms against their princes ...
... favour of the em- peror Nicephorus , who was a friend to that fect , that at last , being perfecuted by the emprefs Theodora , the wife of Bafil , they were in a condition to build towns , and to take up arms against their princes ...
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