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, Volume 2T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 |
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... Latin and French languages in their purity . Young gentlemen of diftinguished parts , after being fufficiently inftructed in these things , were to be fent abroad with ambassadors ; whilst others were to write the history of all ...
... Latin and French languages in their purity . Young gentlemen of diftinguished parts , after being fufficiently inftructed in these things , were to be fent abroad with ambassadors ; whilst others were to write the history of all ...
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... Latin . This vol.i.p.732 . is the edition of 1623 , and stands as the first part to his grand Inftauration of the Sciences . Sir Robert Cecil , now earl of Salisbury , who had oppofed Bacon's preferment under Elizabeth , feems to have ...
... Latin . This vol.i.p.732 . is the edition of 1623 , and stands as the first part to his grand Inftauration of the Sciences . Sir Robert Cecil , now earl of Salisbury , who had oppofed Bacon's preferment under Elizabeth , feems to have ...
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... Latin , and afterwards applied himself to phi- lofophy , hiftory , chronology , and geography . In 1670 , he went into the great feminary , where he ftudied divinity . In 1672 , he was appointed to teach the fifth form in the col- lege ...
... Latin , and afterwards applied himself to phi- lofophy , hiftory , chronology , and geography . In 1670 , he went into the great feminary , where he ftudied divinity . In 1672 , he was appointed to teach the fifth form in the col- lege ...
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... Latin preface , which was published : in this he promises another index , or catalogue of all the authors in M. de Lamoignon's library . If you knew the fubject treat- ed of , but not the name of the author , you find it in the first ...
... Latin preface , which was published : in this he promises another index , or catalogue of all the authors in M. de Lamoignon's library . If you knew the fubject treat- ed of , but not the name of the author , you find it in the first ...
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... Latin , he did not care to publifh them in that lan- guage , and printed only a preliminary treatise to his great work ( D ) . In the year 1691 , he published in French the Life of Des Cartes , in two volumes4to , which he after- wards ...
... Latin , he did not care to publifh them in that lan- guage , and printed only a preliminary treatise to his great work ( D ) . In the year 1691 , he published in French the Life of Des Cartes , in two volumes4to , which he after- wards ...
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