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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... friend Peter de Maharn Curia 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 ...
... friend Peter de Maharn Curia 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 ...
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... friendship he contracted with Effex , educated at the fame college , were pro- bably the first cause of his ... friend , had long folicited his preferment , Bacon's Works . C P. 435 . edit . 1753 preferment , could not 8 BACON .
... friendship he contracted with Effex , educated at the fame college , were pro- bably the first cause of his ... friend , had long folicited his preferment , Bacon's Works . C P. 435 . edit . 1753 preferment , could not 8 BACON .
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... friends : and frequently confi- dering that he was not performing his duty whilst he left those studies unprofecuted , by which he might do fervice to mankind , and followed thofe that depended upon the will of others , he laid afide ...
... friends : and frequently confi- dering that he was not performing his duty whilst he left those studies unprofecuted , by which he might do fervice to mankind , and followed thofe that depended upon the will of others , he laid afide ...
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... friends , turned the whole into 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 ...
... friends , turned the whole into 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 ...
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... friendship with Vil- lers , and gave an admirable proof of the fincerity thereof on his part , in that letter of advice how to discharge every part of the difficult office of prime minifter , which is ftill extant among his works . June ...
... friendship with Vil- lers , and gave an admirable proof of the fincerity thereof on his part , in that letter of advice how to discharge every part of the difficult office of prime minifter , which is ftill extant among his works . June ...
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