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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... himself Biog . Brit , intituled Opus majus , or his Great Work , is ftill extant ( B ) . Dr. Jebb , the learned editor thereof , tells us , that Bacon seems to have propofed two things principally in it , either by laying down a good ...
... himself Biog . Brit , intituled Opus majus , or his Great Work , is ftill extant ( B ) . Dr. Jebb , the learned editor thereof , tells us , that Bacon seems to have propofed two things principally in it , either by laying down a good ...
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... himself , that he had great numbers of burning - glaffes ; and that there were none ever in use among the Latins , till his friend Peter de Maharn Curia applied himself to the making of them . That the telescope was not unknown to him ...
... himself , that he had great numbers of burning - glaffes ; and that there were none ever in use among the Latins , till his friend Peter de Maharn Curia applied himself to the making of them . That the telescope was not unknown to him ...
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... himself declares , to procure the greater affiftance to his capacity and industry in perfecting his philofophical defigns . Lord Burleigh interested himself fo far in his behalf as to obtain for him , not without Rawley . oppofition ...
... himself declares , to procure the greater affiftance to his capacity and industry in perfecting his philofophical defigns . Lord Burleigh interested himself fo far in his behalf as to obtain for him , not without Rawley . oppofition ...
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... himself to his peers , and promiling , upon his princely word , to fcreen him in the last determination , or if that could not be , to reward him afterwards with ample re- tribution of favour ( B ) . The chancellor , though he forefaw ...
... himself to his peers , and promiling , upon his princely word , to fcreen him in the last determination , or if that could not be , to reward him afterwards with ample re- tribution of favour ( B ) . The chancellor , though he forefaw ...
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... himself with this allowance , gave fome charity to the la Vie de poor , and went once a year to buy books at Paris . In Baillet , in 1680 , being appointed library - keeper to Mr. de Lamoignon , of the Juge- advocate - general to the ...
... himself with this allowance , gave fome charity to the la Vie de poor , and went once a year to buy books at Paris . In Baillet , in 1680 , being appointed library - keeper to Mr. de Lamoignon , of the Juge- advocate - general to the ...
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