A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 15 of 15: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 15 of 15: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation

In confequencé of tlrefe refolutions, he retired to his paternai efiate at Popes, where he purfued a learned intimacy with the famous Selden, the learned John Hales of Eton college, MI. John Greaves, and o hers; the Jail of whom in the year 1651, dedicates A Defcription of the Grand Seignior's Se Iaglio, or the Turki fh Emperor s court, to his honoured and Holy noble friend, George T oohs efq. Here thele ex traordinary geniufes u fed to pafs their hours in the mutual improvement Of their minds, and the cultivation of the vii tues; while their fellow-citizens, after imbruing their hands in civil carnage, were engaged in empty difputations and idler contefls. In this retirement he had the great affliétion to lofe his wife, a woman of excellent virtues and uncommon en dowments. On which occafion he wrote various canzonets, and dedicated them to the memory of his deceafed very dear wife, Anna Tooke Of Beere [b].

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