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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... things above com- mon understandings , he was fufpected of magic . He was perfecuted particularly by his own fraternity , fo that they would not receive his works into their library , and at last had intereft enough ( fays Dr. Freind ) ...
... things above com- mon understandings , he was fufpected of magic . He was perfecuted particularly by his own fraternity , fo that they would not receive his works into their library , and at last had intereft enough ( fays Dr. Freind ) ...
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... 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 could not effect this , to propofe fuch expedients as would break the power ...
... 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 could not effect this , to propofe fuch expedients as would break the power ...
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... things which Homberg pub- ⚫lishes as new difcoveries . Thus , for instance , Bacon teaches exprefly , that if a pure fulphur be united with mercury , it ⚫ will produce gold : on which very principle Mr. Homberg has made many ...
... things which Homberg pub- ⚫lishes as new difcoveries . Thus , for instance , Bacon teaches exprefly , that if a pure fulphur be united with mercury , it ⚫ will produce gold : on which very principle Mr. Homberg has made many ...
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... things , were to be fent abroad with ambassadors ; whilst others were to write the history of all embaffies , treaties , and other foreign tranfactions , and of all arraignments and public trials at home . This plan was never Hift . of ...
... things , were to be fent abroad with ambassadors ; whilst others were to write the history of all embaffies , treaties , and other foreign tranfactions , and of all arraignments and public trials at home . This plan was never Hift . of ...
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... things worth knowing . 2. The writers from Elias . 13. To 3. The writers from Berthold . 4 . Additions to Trithemius . < . German Collections . 6. French Collections . 7. English Collections . 8. Divers writings of divers learned men ...
... things worth knowing . 2. The writers from Elias . 13. To 3. The writers from Berthold . 4 . Additions to Trithemius . < . German Collections . 6. French Collections . 7. English Collections . 8. Divers writings of divers learned men ...
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