A Biographical, Historical and Chronological Dictionary:: Containing Accurate Accounts of the Lives, Characters, and Actions, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages and All Countries; : Including the Revolutions of States, and the Succession of Sovereign Princes |
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... EDITION of this work to the Public , the Author can have no occasion to expatiate on the interesting Nature of its Subjects , or on the Utility of his Plan . A BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL LIBRARY , in the form of a Dictionary , and in ...
... EDITION of this work to the Public , the Author can have no occasion to expatiate on the interesting Nature of its Subjects , or on the Utility of his Plan . A BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL LIBRARY , in the form of a Dictionary , and in ...
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... EDITION been sedulously examined , The additional articles will be found to be very numerous and important , especially of modern characters ; and it is hoped that , in the accuracy of narrative and impartiality of delineation , the ...
... EDITION been sedulously examined , The additional articles will be found to be very numerous and important , especially of modern characters ; and it is hoped that , in the accuracy of narrative and impartiality of delineation , the ...
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... edition of this work ap- peared at Basil , in 1610 , to which was ad- ded , a letter of Acontius's " De Ratione edendorum Librorum ; " but his best work is a treatise " On Method , " printed at Utrecht , in 1638. — Bayle . Tiraboschi ...
... edition of this work ap- peared at Basil , in 1610 , to which was ad- ded , a letter of Acontius's " De Ratione edendorum Librorum ; " but his best work is a treatise " On Method , " printed at Utrecht , in 1638. — Bayle . Tiraboschi ...
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... edition now bears an exorbitant price . But the first Greek edition is reckoned that of 1450 , 4to . -Herodotus . Plutarch . Fabric . Bayle . Ęsop , the author of a romantic history of Alexander the Great , in Greek , which has been ...
... edition now bears an exorbitant price . But the first Greek edition is reckoned that of 1450 , 4to . -Herodotus . Plutarch . Fabric . Bayle . Ęsop , the author of a romantic history of Alexander the Great , in Greek , which has been ...
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... edition appeared in 1736 , and it has been since revised and published by Drs . Patrick and Morell - B g . Brit . AIRAULT ( Peter ) , was lieutenant - criminal of Angiers , and was born there 1536 . He published , 1. The Declamations of ...
... edition appeared in 1736 , and it has been since revised and published by Drs . Patrick and Morell - B g . Brit . AIRAULT ( Peter ) , was lieutenant - criminal of Angiers , and was born there 1536 . He published , 1. The Declamations of ...
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