A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation in the World, Particularly the British and Irish ...The Proprietors, 1795 - Biography |
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... French , Spanish , and Italian , with the fame propriety and fluency as the natives ; and was equally as great a master of the Latin . He continued twenty - two years abroad ; and , during that time , was at the fiege of Rochelle , and ...
... French , Spanish , and Italian , with the fame propriety and fluency as the natives ; and was equally as great a master of the Latin . He continued twenty - two years abroad ; and , during that time , was at the fiege of Rochelle , and ...
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... French , and fome into English . He was likewise a writer of history . LEUNCLAVIUS ( JOANNES ) , a learned German , was de- fcended from a noble family , and born at Amelbrun in Weftphalia , in 1533. He travelled through almost all the ...
... French , and fome into English . He was likewise a writer of history . LEUNCLAVIUS ( JOANNES ) , a learned German , was de- fcended from a noble family , and born at Amelbrun in Weftphalia , in 1533. He travelled through almost all the ...
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... French geographer , was born at Paris in 1675. He began at eight or nine years of age to defign maps , and his progrefs in this way was even rapid . 1699 , he firft diftinguished himself to the public , by giving a map of the world ...
... French geographer , was born at Paris in 1675. He began at eight or nine years of age to defign maps , and his progrefs in this way was even rapid . 1699 , he firft diftinguished himself to the public , by giving a map of the world ...
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... French nation . Monfieur and count d'Artois , affifted by the well - known Calonne , formed a plan to recover the loft power of the monarch by force of How far the king was privy to , or concerned in these in- trigues , has not yet ...
... French nation . Monfieur and count d'Artois , affifted by the well - known Calonne , formed a plan to recover the loft power of the monarch by force of How far the king was privy to , or concerned in these in- trigues , has not yet ...
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... French territory was invaded by any fo- reign power ; and one was for death , but commutation of punish- ment . The prefident in confequence declared , " that the national convention pronounced sentence of death againft Louis Capet ...
... French territory was invaded by any fo- reign power ; and one was for death , but commutation of punish- ment . The prefident in confequence declared , " that the national convention pronounced sentence of death againft Louis Capet ...
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