The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Volume 30Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1816 - Biography |
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... excellent indeed was his character in that comparatively dark age , that even Buchanan speaks in his praise . He built the castle of St. Andrew's , the scene afterwards of many remarkable transactions in the history of the church of ...
... excellent indeed was his character in that comparatively dark age , that even Buchanan speaks in his praise . He built the castle of St. Andrew's , the scene afterwards of many remarkable transactions in the history of the church of ...
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... abridgment of these sermons in the " Gentleman's Magazine ; which pro- duced an excellent paper on the sub- ject by Dr. Johnson , printed in the Gent . Mag . for 1787 . 1752 . His Sermons at Lady Moyer's Lecture were pub- TRAPP . 13.
... abridgment of these sermons in the " Gentleman's Magazine ; which pro- duced an excellent paper on the sub- ject by Dr. Johnson , printed in the Gent . Mag . for 1787 . 1752 . His Sermons at Lady Moyer's Lecture were pub- TRAPP . 13.
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... excellent artist of the English school , and a member of the Royal Academy of London , and of the academies of Rome and Bologna , was a native of Ireland , which country he left at an early age ; and having devoted himself to the arts ...
... excellent artist of the English school , and a member of the Royal Academy of London , and of the academies of Rome and Bologna , was a native of Ireland , which country he left at an early age ; and having devoted himself to the arts ...
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... easy , ' and " The Perspective of Architecture , " was a man of an 1 Gibbon's Hist . and references . - Saxii Onomast . Moreri . - Dict . Hist . de L'Avocat . excellent understanding , and of great piety and so high 24 TRI BO NIAN Ù S.
... easy , ' and " The Perspective of Architecture , " was a man of an 1 Gibbon's Hist . and references . - Saxii Onomast . Moreri . - Dict . Hist . de L'Avocat . excellent understanding , and of great piety and so high 24 TRI BO NIAN Ù S.
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... excellent understanding , and of great piety and so high was his reputation for knowledge of divinity , and so ex- emplary his moral conduct , that , as an exception to their general rule , which admitted no layman , he was chosen ...
... excellent understanding , and of great piety and so high was his reputation for knowledge of divinity , and so ex- emplary his moral conduct , that , as an exception to their general rule , which admitted no layman , he was chosen ...
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