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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... taken in his youth ; and he exceedingly blamed those Chriftians , who applied themselves for matter to the divinities of Parnaffus , and the fables of the antients . Befides the above - mentioned performances in verfe , he was the ...
... taken in his youth ; and he exceedingly blamed those Chriftians , who applied themselves for matter to the divinities of Parnaffus , and the fables of the antients . Befides the above - mentioned performances in verfe , he was the ...
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... taken prifoner in Bafing - house , and refusing to take the oaths to Oliver , he was banifhed into France . He ftudied feveral years under the famous painter Champagne , and arrived to very great perfection in correctness of drawing ...
... taken prifoner in Bafing - house , and refusing to take the oaths to Oliver , he was banifhed into France . He ftudied feveral years under the famous painter Champagne , and arrived to very great perfection in correctness of drawing ...
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... taken prefixed to into the employments of fate by king Charles I. and then fent refident to the court of Spain ; whence being re- called in the beginning of the troubles in 1641 , he adhered to the royal intereft , and was employed in ...
... taken prefixed to into the employments of fate by king Charles I. and then fent refident to the court of Spain ; whence being re- called in the beginning of the troubles in 1641 , he adhered to the royal intereft , and was employed in ...
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... taken for an easy- " natured man by my own fex , and an ill natured clown by yours . I have very little eftate , but what lies under the circumference of my hat ; and fhould I by misfortune come 66 " to lose my head , I fhould not be 66 ...
... taken for an easy- " natured man by my own fex , and an ill natured clown by yours . I have very little eftate , but what lies under the circumference of my hat ; and fhould I by misfortune come 66 " to lose my head , I fhould not be 66 ...
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... taken with our author's manner , that he im . mediately gave him a brother's place in the Savoy - hospital , of which he was then mafter . About that time archbishop Abbot gave him the rectory of All - hallows , Breadstreet , in London ...
... taken with our author's manner , that he im . mediately gave him a brother's place in the Savoy - hospital , of which he was then mafter . About that time archbishop Abbot gave him the rectory of All - hallows , Breadstreet , in London ...
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