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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... lived , how ' he came by fuch a depth of knowledge on all subjects . His writings are compofed with that elegancy , concifeness , and ftrength , and adorned with fuch juft and exquifite obferva- tions on nature , that , among all the ...
... lived , how ' he came by fuch a depth of knowledge on all subjects . His writings are compofed with that elegancy , concifeness , and ftrength , and adorned with fuch juft and exquifite obferva- tions on nature , that , among all the ...
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... lived in , and the greatest genius perhaps for mechanical knowledge , which ever ap- peared in the world fince Archimedes : he appears likewife C C to have been mafter of the whole fcience of optics . ' He Biog , Brig . has very ...
... lived in , and the greatest genius perhaps for mechanical knowledge , which ever ap- peared in the world fince Archimedes : he appears likewife C C to have been mafter of the whole fcience of optics . ' He Biog , Brig . has very ...
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... lived him upwards of twenty years . to his fervants , and connived at their takings , and their ways be- trayed him to that error : they · were profuse and expensive , and ⚫ had at their command whatever he ' was mafter of . The gifts ...
... lived him upwards of twenty years . to his fervants , and connived at their takings , and their ways be- trayed him to that error : they · were profuse and expensive , and ⚫ had at their command whatever he ' was mafter of . The gifts ...
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... lived a studious and retired life for ma- ny years . He chiefly applied himself to the ftudy of the ma- thematics ; and he gave a proof of his great knowledge in this branch of learning , in the book he published intitled The ...
... lived a studious and retired life for ma- ny years . He chiefly applied himself to the ftudy of the ma- thematics ; and he gave a proof of his great knowledge in this branch of learning , in the book he published intitled The ...
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... lived now at a confiderable diftance from Paris , and was above eighty years of age , yet he ftill continued his See all application to his ftudies : he was engaged in publishing St. of Lew.XIV Cyprian's works , when he was carried off ...
... lived now at a confiderable diftance from Paris , and was above eighty years of age , yet he ftill continued his See all application to his ftudies : he was engaged in publishing St. of Lew.XIV Cyprian's works , when he was carried off ...
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