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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Page 62
... profe " concerning facrifices and the commonwealth of Crete . " St. Jerom likewife mentions his book " of oracles and refponfes . " The Lacedemonians procured his body , and pre- ferved it among them upon the advice of an oracle ; and ...
... profe " concerning facrifices and the commonwealth of Crete . " St. Jerom likewife mentions his book " of oracles and refponfes . " The Lacedemonians procured his body , and pre- ferved it among them upon the advice of an oracle ; and ...
Page 86
... profe- cution was dropped , upon its being intimated to Henry , that the leaving to the vengeance of public juftice , the object his father had tenderly loved for fo many years , would blemish the beginning of his reign with an affront ...
... profe- cution was dropped , upon its being intimated to Henry , that the leaving to the vengeance of public juftice , the object his father had tenderly loved for fo many years , would blemish the beginning of his reign with an affront ...
Page 88
... Select Collection of Poems . " There is alfo , of his writing , in profe , a fhort piece entitled , " An Account of the Rejoicing at the Diet of Ratisbon , } ETHRYG ( George ) : 89 Ratifbon , performed 88 LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS .
... Select Collection of Poems . " There is alfo , of his writing , in profe , a fhort piece entitled , " An Account of the Rejoicing at the Diet of Ratisbon , } ETHRYG ( George ) : 89 Ratifbon , performed 88 LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS .
Page 91
... profe and verfe : of the latter fort , " An Heroic Poem , " mentioned by Socrates , " upon the victory gained by her husband Theodofius over the Perfians ; ' " A Para- phrafe of the eight firft books of the Bible , " and " A Hiftory of ...
... profe and verfe : of the latter fort , " An Heroic Poem , " mentioned by Socrates , " upon the victory gained by her husband Theodofius over the Perfians ; ' " A Para- phrafe of the eight firft books of the Bible , " and " A Hiftory of ...
Page 129
... profe , befides his " ROMA , " viz . his Annals of Meiffen , " and Travels . " 66 FABRICIUS ( VINCENT ) , a man eminent for wit and learn .. ing , and for the civil employments with which he was honoured , VOL . V. R was t was born at ...
... profe , befides his " ROMA , " viz . his Annals of Meiffen , " and Travels . " 66 FABRICIUS ( VINCENT ) , a man eminent for wit and learn .. ing , and for the civil employments with which he was honoured , VOL . V. R was t was born at ...
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