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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... applied himself to the making of them . That the telescope was not unknown to him , is evident from a paffage wherein he fays , that he was able to form glaffes in fuch a manner , with respect to our fight and the objects , that the ...
... applied himself to the making of them . That the telescope was not unknown to him , is evident from a paffage wherein he fays , that he was able to form glaffes in fuch a manner , with respect to our fight and the objects , that the ...
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... applied to the ftudy of the law in Gray's Inn . In 1537 , Dr. Birch'she was appointed folicitor of the court of augmentation . He Mem . or Q - prefented to Henry VIII . a fcheme for a feminary of states- Elizabeth , men , by founding a ...
... applied to the ftudy of the law in Gray's Inn . In 1537 , Dr. Birch'she was appointed folicitor of the court of augmentation . He Mem . or Q - prefented to Henry VIII . a fcheme for a feminary of states- Elizabeth , men , by founding a ...
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... applied himself , more through neceffity than choice , to the study of the common law , and for that purpose seated Rawley . himself in Gray's Inn . At the age of twenty - eight he was Dugdale . chofen by that honourable fociety for ...
... applied himself , more through neceffity than choice , to the study of the common law , and for that purpose seated Rawley . himself in Gray's Inn . At the age of twenty - eight he was Dugdale . chofen by that honourable fociety for ...
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... 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 of Beauvais ; and the ...
... 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 of Beauvais ; and the ...
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... applied him- mens desSa- felf with great affiduity to draw up an index of all the sub- jects treated of , in this gentleman's library , and finished it in August 1682. The additions he continued to make in- creased it at length to fuch ...
... applied him- mens desSa- felf with great affiduity to draw up an index of all the sub- jects treated of , in this gentleman's library , and finished it in August 1682. The additions he continued to make in- creased it at length to fuch ...
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