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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... 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 France , became at length the ...
... 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 France , became at length the ...
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... kind of religion , fo commonly approved of ; " but that no perfon could fhew , that he had ever in the . leaft departed from true and genuine religion . I entertain , continues he , no ideas of the Deity which are low and mean , and ...
... kind of religion , fo commonly approved of ; " but that no perfon could fhew , that he had ever in the . leaft departed from true and genuine religion . I entertain , continues he , no ideas of the Deity which are low and mean , and ...
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... kind of things , as to make fome Germans fancy it an antient work . We are not sure however , that this is in favor of the work , but rather against it ; fince we think , he might fometimes be tempted to deviate from the truth of ...
... kind of things , as to make fome Germans fancy it an antient work . We are not sure however , that this is in favor of the work , but rather against it ; fince we think , he might fometimes be tempted to deviate from the truth of ...
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... kind re- ception and a handsome stipend , if they would continue here . They arrived in the year 1549 ; were entertained for fome days in the palace at Lambeth ; and were deftined to refide at Cambridge , where they were to perfect a ...
... kind re- ception and a handsome stipend , if they would continue here . They arrived in the year 1549 ; were entertained for fome days in the palace at Lambeth ; and were deftined to refide at Cambridge , where they were to perfect a ...
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... Kind to the present and fuccceding age . That hand , whofe curious art prolongs the date Of frail mortality , and baffles fate Το For With brass and fteel , can furely potent be o rear a lasting monument for thee . my part I prefer , to ...
... Kind to the present and fuccceding age . That hand , whofe curious art prolongs the date Of frail mortality , and baffles fate Το For With brass and fteel , can furely potent be o rear a lasting monument for thee . my part I prefer , to ...
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