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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... thought , future things might be foretold . This , according to Dr. Jebb , making the friers of his order to confider him as a person en- gaged in unlawful arts , occafioned his imprisonment ( A ) . At the particular defire of pope ...
... thought , future things might be foretold . This , according to Dr. Jebb , making the friers of his order to confider him as a person en- gaged in unlawful arts , occafioned his imprisonment ( A ) . At the particular defire of pope ...
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... thoughts to philofophical ftudies , Bacon refolved to apply to him for his discharge ; and in order to fhew both the innocence and the usefulness of his studies , addressed to him a treatife On the means of avoiding the infirmities of ...
... thoughts to philofophical ftudies , Bacon refolved to apply to him for his discharge ; and in order to fhew both the innocence and the usefulness of his studies , addressed to him a treatife On the means of avoiding the infirmities of ...
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... of it . By the intereft of fir William Cecil , who by fome is thought to have been alfo privy to Hales's Hales's book , fir Nicholas was reftored to the queen's 6 BACON . BACON (fir NICHOLAS) lord keeper of the great ...
... of it . By the intereft of fir William Cecil , who by fome is thought to have been alfo privy to Hales's Hales's book , fir Nicholas was reftored to the queen's 6 BACON . BACON (fir NICHOLAS) lord keeper of the great ...
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... thoughts of rifing in life , and more vigorously prosecuted the defign of his In- stauration . In 1597 , he published ... thought it just to take upon himself . fiftance of Lord Ba- Works , fiftance of fome friends , turned the whole - 9 ...
... thoughts of rifing in life , and more vigorously prosecuted the defign of his In- stauration . In 1597 , he published ... thought it just to take upon himself . fiftance of Lord Ba- Works , fiftance of fome friends , turned the whole - 9 ...
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... thought his abilities too great for J. Bain- the obfcurity of a country life , he removed to London , where bridge , p . 3 . he was admitted a fellow of the college of phyficians . His quorundam defcription of the comet which appeared ...
... thought his abilities too great for J. Bain- the obfcurity of a country life , he removed to London , where bridge , p . 3 . he was admitted a fellow of the college of phyficians . His quorundam defcription of the comet which appeared ...
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