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 : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions Or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are Accurately Displayed : with a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions, Volumen 5T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 |
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... also , to studies of a different kind , to the Mathematics paticularly ; which he fucceeded in fo well , that he difcovered immediately the defect in Scaliger's demonftration of the Quadrature of the Circle . When Henry the IVth of ...
... also , to studies of a different kind , to the Mathematics paticularly ; which he fucceeded in fo well , that he difcovered immediately the defect in Scaliger's demonftration of the Quadrature of the Circle . When Henry the IVth of ...
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... also in the Belles Lettres , procured him many friends ; and he became advocate , doctor , and profeffor of law , at Aix ; where he continued to the year 1617 , and then went to Paris , at the follicitation of the prefident du Vair ...
... also in the Belles Lettres , procured him many friends ; and he became advocate , doctor , and profeffor of law , at Aix ; where he continued to the year 1617 , and then went to Paris , at the follicitation of the prefident du Vair ...
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... also great proficient in graving , as likewife in painting ; efpe- cially in miniature , of which there are many fpecimens now extan : in England . He died in Black - fryars about the be- ginning of king William's reign , when he was ...
... also great proficient in graving , as likewife in painting ; efpe- cially in miniature , of which there are many fpecimens now extan : in England . He died in Black - fryars about the be- ginning of king William's reign , when he was ...
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... also a coward ; though indeed , a man of arms every inch " of him , and as valiant as any in his age . Now , as I " am glad that fir John Oldcastle is put out , fo I am forry that Fuller's Worthies , ibid . " that fir John Faftolff ...
... also a coward ; though indeed , a man of arms every inch " of him , and as valiant as any in his age . Now , as I " am glad that fir John Oldcastle is put out , fo I am forry that Fuller's Worthies , ibid . " that fir John Faftolff ...
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... also published , in 1629 , king James's Cygnea Cantio ; in which may be seen , a scho- lastic duel between that king and our author . Athen . FECKENHAM ( JOHN DE ) , fo called , because he was born of poor parents in a cottage , near ...
... also published , in 1629 , king James's Cygnea Cantio ; in which may be seen , a scho- lastic duel between that king and our author . Athen . FECKENHAM ( JOHN DE ) , fo called , because he was born of poor parents in a cottage , near ...
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