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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... occafion , as being well assured of most ample powers . Before his departure , the queen admonished him to have a special regard to her honour , and to attempt nothing inconsistent with the great employment to which he was advanced ...
... occafion , as being well assured of most ample powers . Before his departure , the queen admonished him to have a special regard to her honour , and to attempt nothing inconsistent with the great employment to which he was advanced ...
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... occafion their imprisonment : but they were released upon the dif- covery of the true author . It was written about 1613 , and fent to king James , to teach him how most effectually to enflave his subjects : for in that light it is ...
... occafion their imprisonment : but they were released upon the dif- covery of the true author . It was written about 1613 , and fent to king James , to teach him how most effectually to enflave his subjects : for in that light it is ...
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... occafion , but to no purpose : whereupon he opened a private school in Coleman - Street , July 1661 , and , by March following , had gathered an hundred and ninety- 2 9 : DUGDALE- ( Sir William ) . ninety - 8 LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS .
... occafion , but to no purpose : whereupon he opened a private school in Coleman - Street , July 1661 , and , by March following , had gathered an hundred and ninety- 2 9 : DUGDALE- ( Sir William ) . ninety - 8 LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS .
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... occafion , hindered his taking a journey into France , as he had wished and designed to do . He continued with her three years , after which he went to Geneva , where he stayed two years . Being returned into his own country , he had ...
... occafion , hindered his taking a journey into France , as he had wished and designed to do . He continued with her three years , after which he went to Geneva , where he stayed two years . Being returned into his own country , he had ...
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... occafion of Epicurus's pafling his childhood in that ifland : and he did not return to Athens till he was eighteen years of age . His mafters are faid to have been various ; and there is much uncer- tainty about them . Cicero , Plutarch ...
... occafion of Epicurus's pafling his childhood in that ifland : and he did not return to Athens till he was eighteen years of age . His mafters are faid to have been various ; and there is much uncer- tainty about them . Cicero , Plutarch ...
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