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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... learned monk of the Franciscan or- der , was defcended of an ancient family , and born near Il- Biog . Brit . chefter in Somersetshire , in the year 1214. He received the firft tincture of learning at Oxford , from whence he went to the ...
... learned monk of the Franciscan or- der , was defcended of an ancient family , and born near Il- Biog . Brit . chefter in Somersetshire , in the year 1214. He received the firft tincture of learning at Oxford , from whence he went to the ...
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... learned editor thereof , tells us , that Bacon seems to have propofed two things principally in it , either by laying down a good scheme of philofophy to excite the pope to reform the errors that had crept into the church ; or if he ...
... learned editor thereof , tells us , that Bacon seems to have propofed two things principally in it , either by laying down a good scheme of philofophy to excite the pope to reform the errors that had crept into the church ; or if he ...
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... learned counsel , with vol . xv . a fee of forty pounds a year ; and on the fame day had a pen- P. 196 . fion of fixty pounds a year affigned him for life , in confidera- tion of the special fervices received by the king from him and ...
... learned counsel , with vol . xv . a fee of forty pounds a year ; and on the fame day had a pen- P. 196 . fion of fixty pounds a year affigned him for life , in confidera- tion of the special fervices received by the king from him and ...
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... learned English divine , who flourish- Comment , de Script . ed towards the end of the thirteenth century , born at Ba- Britan . conthorp , a small village in Norfolk , from whence he took cap . 374 . his name . He spent fome of his ...
... learned English divine , who flourish- Comment , de Script . ed towards the end of the thirteenth century , born at Ba- Britan . conthorp , a small village in Norfolk , from whence he took cap . 374 . his name . He spent fome of his ...
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... learned French author , born June 13 , 1649 , at Neuville , a village near Beauvais in Pi- cardy . His father was very poor , and could not afford to give him a proper education ; but there being a convent not far from Neuville , young ...
... learned French author , born June 13 , 1649 , at Neuville , a village near Beauvais in Pi- cardy . His father was very poor , and could not afford to give him a proper education ; but there being a convent not far from Neuville , young ...
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