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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... called him a living library for history and ecclefiaftical learning . Scaliger fays , he was a most ingeni- ous man , but that he never read the books of heretics . And , laftly , Scioppius , who hardly ever spoke well of any one ...
... called him a living library for history and ecclefiaftical learning . Scaliger fays , he was a most ingeni- ous man , but that he never read the books of heretics . And , laftly , Scioppius , who hardly ever spoke well of any one ...
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... called in a man , who had broken off almost all converfa- tion , for the fake of applying himself more closely to his ftudies : he was always very elegant in his drefs , and fo ex- penfive with regard to this , that he is faid to have ...
... called in a man , who had broken off almost all converfa- tion , for the fake of applying himself more closely to his ftudies : he was always very elegant in his drefs , and fo ex- penfive with regard to this , that he is faid to have ...
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... called Prima , to diftinguish it from another , which was printed before , though in reality made after , it . Voltaire , as we have obferved above , has spoken with fome contempt of our author . Bochart ftiles him a man " admirably ...
... called Prima , to diftinguish it from another , which was printed before , though in reality made after , it . Voltaire , as we have obferved above , has spoken with fome contempt of our author . Bochart ftiles him a man " admirably ...
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... called Aquapendente . from the place of his na- tivity , was in high fame about the end of the fixteenth cen- tury . He laid the foundation of his future acquifitions at Padua , where he made himself mafter of the Latin and Greek ...
... called Aquapendente . from the place of his na- tivity , was in high fame about the end of the fixteenth cen- tury . He laid the foundation of his future acquifitions at Padua , where he made himself mafter of the Latin and Greek ...
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... called a fecond Phædrus , by reafon of the excellent ftile of " his fables , though he never faw Phædrus , who did not come to our knowledge , till above thirty years after his " death ; for Pithoeus , having found that manuscript in ...
... called a fecond Phædrus , by reafon of the excellent ftile of " his fables , though he never faw Phædrus , who did not come to our knowledge , till above thirty years after his " death ; for Pithoeus , having found that manuscript in ...
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