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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... duke of Norfolk ; which being difcovered , the duke was convicted of treafon , and executed . Lefley , how- ever , being examined upon it , pleaded the privileges of an ambassa- dor ; alleging , that he had done nothing but what his ...
... duke of Norfolk ; which being difcovered , the duke was convicted of treafon , and executed . Lefley , how- ever , being examined upon it , pleaded the privileges of an ambassa- dor ; alleging , that he had done nothing but what his ...
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... duke of Buckingham . He was all along converfant in courts , and at home was happy in that of Charles I. who admitted him into his privy - council both in Scotland and Ireland ; in which stations he was continued by Charles II . after ...
... duke of Buckingham . He was all along converfant in courts , and at home was happy in that of Charles I. who admitted him into his privy - council both in Scotland and Ireland ; in which stations he was continued by Charles II . after ...
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... his mifcellane- ous epiftles is the worst of all his works ; the beft are his " Com- mentaries upon Tacitus , " his Orationes de concordia , " and " upon the LISLE - LISTER . 25 the Death of the Duke 24 LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS .
... his mifcellane- ous epiftles is the worst of all his works ; the beft are his " Com- mentaries upon Tacitus , " his Orationes de concordia , " and " upon the LISLE - LISTER . 25 the Death of the Duke 24 LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS .
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... Duke of Saxony . " His " Electa " and " Satur- nalia " are very excellent books . He was a Greek scholar suffici- ently for his own private ufe , and no further . He was ignorant of poetry , and every thing relating to it . He wrote a ...
... Duke of Saxony . " His " Electa " and " Satur- nalia " are very excellent books . He was a Greek scholar suffici- ently for his own private ufe , and no further . He was ignorant of poetry , and every thing relating to it . He wrote a ...
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... duke of Buckingham , the earl of Halifax , and fome other of the most eminent perfons at that time . T He had conceived an early difguft against the method of Ariftotle , and had a particular averfion to the fcholaftic difputations . In ...
... duke of Buckingham , the earl of Halifax , and fome other of the most eminent perfons at that time . T He had conceived an early difguft against the method of Ariftotle , and had a particular averfion to the fcholaftic difputations . In ...
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