General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons Of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order, Volume 3Robinson, 1802 - 672 pages |
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... editing a fine edition of " Cæsar's Commentaries " in folio , accounted one of the noblest productions of the British press at that period , and praised by Addison in the Spec- tator ( No. 367 ) . It was , with CLA CLA ( 3 )
... editing a fine edition of " Cæsar's Commentaries " in folio , accounted one of the noblest productions of the British press at that period , and praised by Addison in the Spec- tator ( No. 367 ) . It was , with CLA CLA ( 3 )
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... folio in 1708. It may be presumed , that there are now few Coc- ceians so zealous as to read the works of their master through . Moreri . Nouv . Dict . Hist . Mosheim Eccl . Hist.-A. COCCHI , ANTONY , an Italian physician , fellow of ...
... folio in 1708. It may be presumed , that there are now few Coc- ceians so zealous as to read the works of their master through . Moreri . Nouv . Dict . Hist . Mosheim Eccl . Hist.-A. COCCHI , ANTONY , an Italian physician , fellow of ...
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... folio , appeared in 1665 , and the eighth and last in 1679. This work commences with the year 235 , and con- cludes with the year 835. It is a vast compila- tion of matter of every kind relative to the Gallican church , made with great ...
... folio , appeared in 1665 , and the eighth and last in 1679. This work commences with the year 235 , and con- cludes with the year 835. It is a vast compila- tion of matter of every kind relative to the Gallican church , made with great ...
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... folio volume on the statutes and customs of Bresse . He was likewise a student in botany , and wrote two letters on Tournefort's History of Plants ; and a " Catalogue of the Plants in the Vicinity of Dijon , " which he classes in a ...
... folio volume on the statutes and customs of Bresse . He was likewise a student in botany , and wrote two letters on Tournefort's History of Plants ; and a " Catalogue of the Plants in the Vicinity of Dijon , " which he classes in a ...
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... folio , in the year 1701 , and met with such a favourable recep- tion , that the author was encouraged to enlarge it by the publication of a third volume , in 1705 , under the title of " A Supplement , & c . " and of a fourth volume ...
... folio , in the year 1701 , and met with such a favourable recep- tion , that the author was encouraged to enlarge it by the publication of a third volume , in 1705 , under the title of " A Supplement , & c . " and of a fourth volume ...
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