A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798 |
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... Chrift . So great an opinion had that king of him , that he appointed him one of the executors of his will , and one of the counsellors to his fon and fucceffor Edward VI . and bequeathed him a legacy of 300l . He did not live long ...
... Chrift . So great an opinion had that king of him , that he appointed him one of the executors of his will , and one of the counsellors to his fon and fucceffor Edward VI . and bequeathed him a legacy of 300l . He did not live long ...
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... Chrift's - college in Cambridge , of which he was fellow . He took the degree of B. D. and was chofen preacher at St. Paul's in London ; and was a very eminent preacher at court in this reign . He died in the year 1576. His principal ...
... Chrift's - college in Cambridge , of which he was fellow . He took the degree of B. D. and was chofen preacher at St. Paul's in London ; and was a very eminent preacher at court in this reign . He died in the year 1576. His principal ...
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... Chrift - church in Oxford . When Dr. John Keil left the univerfity , and went abroad with the palatines in 1702 , Defaguliers fucceeded him in reading courfes of experimental philofophy , which he performed at Hart - hall . In 1712 he ...
... Chrift - church in Oxford . When Dr. John Keil left the univerfity , and went abroad with the palatines in 1702 , Defaguliers fucceeded him in reading courfes of experimental philofophy , which he performed at Hart - hall . In 1712 he ...
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... Chrift ; if a man can be faid to flourish at the time when he is obliged to fly his country for atheism . He has ufually been reckoned among the philofo- phers of Athens , becaufe he philofophized in that city : yet he was not born ...
... Chrift ; if a man can be faid to flourish at the time when he is obliged to fly his country for atheism . He has ufually been reckoned among the philofo- phers of Athens , becaufe he philofophized in that city : yet he was not born ...
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... Chrift , written in the perfian tongue by the jefuit Jerom Xavier , with learned notes ; and he joined to the original a latin tranflation . The hiftory of St. Peter , written in the perfian language , was alfo published by him with a ...
... Chrift , written in the perfian tongue by the jefuit Jerom Xavier , with learned notes ; and he joined to the original a latin tranflation . The hiftory of St. Peter , written in the perfian language , was alfo published by him with a ...
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