The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation : Particulary the British and Irish, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Volume 3AMS Press, 1812 - Biography |
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... English , and published in the Philoso- phical Transactions , No. CCXI , and again reprinted with Jungius's works , in 1747 , at Cobourg . His opinions on the generation of plants were admired for their ingenuity , and if his health and ...
... English , and published in the Philoso- phical Transactions , No. CCXI , and again reprinted with Jungius's works , in 1747 , at Cobourg . His opinions on the generation of plants were admired for their ingenuity , and if his health and ...
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... English by Mr. Rook , Lond . 1729 , 2 vols . 8vo . illustrated with historical , geographical , and critical notes , with Le Clerc's criticism on Quintus Curtius , and some remarks on Perizonius's vindication of that author . Rook also ...
... English by Mr. Rook , Lond . 1729 , 2 vols . 8vo . illustrated with historical , geographical , and critical notes , with Le Clerc's criticism on Quintus Curtius , and some remarks on Perizonius's vindication of that author . Rook also ...
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... English divine and writer , was born at or near Newcastle - upon Tyne , March 29 , 1602. He was admitted of St. John's college , in Cam- bridge , in 1616 , and took his first two degrees from thence in 1619 and 1623. In this last year ...
... English divine and writer , was born at or near Newcastle - upon Tyne , March 29 , 1602. He was admitted of St. John's college , in Cam- bridge , in 1616 , and took his first two degrees from thence in 1619 and 1623. In this last year ...
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... English ; and bishop Godwin seems to lean to the same opinion . He was buried in the cathedral of Canterbury , near the west end , under a monument erect- ed by himself in his life - time . He was a considerable bene- factor to that ...
... English ; and bishop Godwin seems to lean to the same opinion . He was buried in the cathedral of Canterbury , near the west end , under a monument erect- ed by himself in his life - time . He was a considerable bene- factor to that ...
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... English scholar , was born at Kirby - Wiske , near North - Allerton , in Yorkshire , about the year 1515. His father , John Ascham , was of moderate fortune , but a man of understanding and probity , and steward to the noble family of ...
... English scholar , was born at Kirby - Wiske , near North - Allerton , in Yorkshire , about the year 1515. His father , John Ascham , was of moderate fortune , but a man of understanding and probity , and steward to the noble family of ...
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