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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... Oxford . He took his doctor's degree in divinity , and was appointed domeftic chaplain to Henry earl of Pembroke prefident of the council in the Marches of Wales ; by whose interest he became treasurer of the church of Landaff ...
... Oxford . He took his doctor's degree in divinity , and was appointed domeftic chaplain to Henry earl of Pembroke prefident of the council in the Marches of Wales ; by whose interest he became treasurer of the church of Landaff ...
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... Oxford , from whence he went to the university of Paris , at that time much frequented by the English , of whom the moft diftinguished for their learning and abilities highly careffed him . Having been admitted to the degree of doctor ...
... Oxford , from whence he went to the university of Paris , at that time much frequented by the English , of whom the moft diftinguished for their learning and abilities highly careffed him . Having been admitted to the degree of doctor ...
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... Oxford , where he spent the remainder of his days date in his in peace , and died in the college of his order on the 11th of preface . Biog . Brit . June 1294. He was ( fays Dr. Peter Shaw , a very able Boerhaave's judge of his merit ) ...
... Oxford , where he spent the remainder of his days date in his in peace , and died in the college of his order on the 11th of preface . Biog . Brit . June 1294. He was ( fays Dr. Peter Shaw , a very able Boerhaave's judge of his merit ) ...
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... Oxford , which are now in print , and the manufcripts to be seen in the public library of Leyden , having been carried thither among Voffius's manufcripts from England . In these he attempts to fhew how imperfect metals may be ripened ...
... Oxford , which are now in print , and the manufcripts to be seen in the public library of Leyden , having been carried thither among Voffius's manufcripts from England . In these he attempts to fhew how imperfect metals may be ripened ...
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... Oxford , and from thence to Paris , where he had a degree in divinity and laws conferred upon him , and was in high reputation for his learn- ing , being efteemed the head of the Averroifts ( A ) . Up- on his return to England , he was ...
... Oxford , and from thence to Paris , where he had a degree in divinity and laws conferred upon him , and was in high reputation for his learn- ing , being efteemed the head of the Averroifts ( A ) . Up- on his return to England , he was ...
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