The 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 to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1815 |
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... printed by Speght in his edition of Chaucer ; the second , the " Fall of Princes , " or " Boke of Johan Bochas , " ( first printed by Pinson in 1494 , and several times since , ) is a translation from Boccaccio , or rather from a French ...
... printed by Speght in his edition of Chaucer ; the second , the " Fall of Princes , " or " Boke of Johan Bochas , " ( first printed by Pinson in 1494 , and several times since , ) is a translation from Boccaccio , or rather from a French ...
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... printed in the Appendix of his life by Dr. Parr . 13. " Marmoreum chronicum Arundelianum , cum Annotationibus , " printed in the " Marmora Oxoniensia , " by Humphrey Prideaux . He also left twenty - two manuscripts , two of which were ...
... printed in the Appendix of his life by Dr. Parr . 13. " Marmoreum chronicum Arundelianum , cum Annotationibus , " printed in the " Marmora Oxoniensia , " by Humphrey Prideaux . He also left twenty - two manuscripts , two of which were ...
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... printed in 1753. Having renewed the study of the Greek language while at Oldenburgh , he made so much . progress , that by comparing the best commentators he was enabled to write a good paraphrase on " The Epistles of St. Paul , " & c ...
... printed in 1753. Having renewed the study of the Greek language while at Oldenburgh , he made so much . progress , that by comparing the best commentators he was enabled to write a good paraphrase on " The Epistles of St. Paul , " & c ...
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... printed several times , and translated into Latin , Dutch , and French , printed at Paris , 1647 , from the sixth edition . published in 1636 , 12mo , under the title of " Popery con- futed by Papists , " & c . 3. " Via devia , the by ...
... printed several times , and translated into Latin , Dutch , and French , printed at Paris , 1647 , from the sixth edition . published in 1636 , 12mo , under the title of " Popery con- futed by Papists , " & c . 3. " Via devia , the by ...
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... printed there in 1686 , 8vo , by Dr. Matthew Brian . ' & LYONET ( PETER ) , an eminent naturalist , was born at Maestricht July 22 , 1707. He was of a French family , originally of Lorraine , whence they were obliged to take refuge in ...
... printed there in 1686 , 8vo , by Dr. Matthew Brian . ' & LYONET ( PETER ) , an eminent naturalist , was born at Maestricht July 22 , 1707. He was of a French family , originally of Lorraine , whence they were obliged to take refuge in ...
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Página 325 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Página 79 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Página 66 - A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION From the Original Greek, OF ALL THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES, WITH A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical.
Página 286 - ... her try if he had forgot his psalms, by naming any one she would have him repeat; and by casting her eye over it she would know if he was right...
Página 423 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Página 24 - ... to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true, and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747), by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Página 223 - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
Página 390 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Página 449 - A short account of the parish of Waterbeach, in the diocese of Ely, by a late Vicar...
Página 111 - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.