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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... wrote at the fame time , and with infinitely more politenefs , greatly leffened his repu- " tation . The works of Faber are no longer read at Paris , " whereas those of Erafmus are highly esteemed even at " this day . " His natural ...
... wrote at the fame time , and with infinitely more politenefs , greatly leffened his repu- " tation . The works of Faber are no longer read at Paris , " whereas those of Erafmus are highly esteemed even at " this day . " His natural ...
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... wrote Latin as " correctly , as a dead language can be written ; and was the " author of fome Greek verfes , which very likely have had " but few readers . Learning is indebted to him the most for " having produced madam Dacier . " As ...
... wrote Latin as " correctly , as a dead language can be written ; and was the " author of fome Greek verfes , which very likely have had " but few readers . Learning is indebted to him the most for " having produced madam Dacier . " As ...
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... wrote in and as " inftances of this , he mentions Livy , Terence , Aristotle , " Horace , Tacitus , Eufebius , Euftathius , & c . Nor is he " fatisfied with correcting hiftorians and poets , but he has carried his criticism even into ...
... wrote in and as " inftances of this , he mentions Livy , Terence , Aristotle , " Horace , Tacitus , Eufebius , Euftathius , & c . Nor is he " fatisfied with correcting hiftorians and poets , but he has carried his criticism even into ...
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... wrote more by study than custom ; ❝ and he has not always observed the French turn and idiom . " Befides , he spoiled his ftile by a vicious affectation , endea- " vouring to mix the ferious of Balzac , with the humour " and pleasantry ...
... wrote more by study than custom ; ❝ and he has not always observed the French turn and idiom . " Befides , he spoiled his ftile by a vicious affectation , endea- " vouring to mix the ferious of Balzac , with the humour " and pleasantry ...
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... wrote alfo , feven books of the Annals of Mifnia , three of the Annals of Meif- fen , and Travels . His Roma has been greatly admired by fome , by Barthius in particular : and there is this fingularity in it , that he has fo adapted to ...
... wrote alfo , feven books of the Annals of Mifnia , three of the Annals of Meif- fen , and Travels . His Roma has been greatly admired by fome , by Barthius in particular : and there is this fingularity in it , that he has fo adapted to ...
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