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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... religious , and well- col . 72 . read in various faculties , especially in divinity and history , as appears from the books he composed ( A ) . ( A ) Befides his Chronicle , he has left the following works : 1. Cato variegatus , or ...
... religious , and well- col . 72 . read in various faculties , especially in divinity and history , as appears from the books he composed ( A ) . ( A ) Befides his Chronicle , he has left the following works : 1. Cato variegatus , or ...
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... religion , but became afterwards a proteftant . He himself tells us , " that he was involved in the utmost igno- " rance and darkness of mind both at Norwich and Cam- " bridge , till the word of God fhining forth , the churches began to ...
... religion , but became afterwards a proteftant . He himself tells us , " that he was involved in the utmost igno- " rance and darkness of mind both at Norwich and Cam- " bridge , till the word of God fhining forth , the churches began to ...
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... religion of the church of England , but this he declined from his attachment to the Romish religión . He returned to France in 1604 , and accepted of a profeffor- fhip in civil law , which was offered him by the university of Angers ...
... religion of the church of England , but this he declined from his attachment to the Romish religión . He returned to France in 1604 , and accepted of a profeffor- fhip in civil law , which was offered him by the university of Angers ...
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... religion . His father being informed of this , fent for him in 1664 . Robert , though now only fixteen years of age , had gained at See his te- perfect knowledge of the French and Latin tongues , and had ftimony alfo improved himself in ...
... religion . His father being informed of this , fent for him in 1664 . Robert , though now only fixteen years of age , had gained at See his te- perfect knowledge of the French and Latin tongues , and had ftimony alfo improved himself in ...
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... religion of the quakers , having endeavoured to confound them with another fect , called the ranters , our author , in order to fhew the difference betwixt those of his perfuafion and this other feet , wrote a very fenfible and ...
... religion of the quakers , having endeavoured to confound them with another fect , called the ranters , our author , in order to fhew the difference betwixt those of his perfuafion and this other feet , wrote a very fenfible and ...
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