The 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 to the Present Time, Том 28Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1816 |
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... translations of this work by Lipoman , Surius , and others , but no edition of the original Greek ; and his trans- lators are accused of having added much of a fabulous na- ture . Some other religious tracts of Metaphrastes are ex- tant ...
... translations of this work by Lipoman , Surius , and others , but no edition of the original Greek ; and his trans- lators are accused of having added much of a fabulous na- ture . Some other religious tracts of Metaphrastes are ex- tant ...
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... translated and published under the same initials Dickson's " Truth's Victory over Error , " suppress- ing the author's name ( see DAVID DICKSON ) , for which he is censured by Wodrow , the ecclesiastical historian and biographer of ...
... translated and published under the same initials Dickson's " Truth's Victory over Error , " suppress- ing the author's name ( see DAVID DICKSON ) , for which he is censured by Wodrow , the ecclesiastical historian and biographer of ...
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... translated from Greek into Latin . Sirmond returned to Paris in 1606 ; and from that time did not cease to enrich the public with a great number of works , particularly editions of the authors of the middle age , printed by him with ...
... translated from Greek into Latin . Sirmond returned to Paris in 1606 ; and from that time did not cease to enrich the public with a great number of works , particularly editions of the authors of the middle age , printed by him with ...
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... translated into French by Dupinet , 1564 , 8vo , and reprinted under the title of " La Banque Romaine , " 1700 , 12mo . ' SIXTUS V. ( POPE ) , whose proper names were FELIX PERETTI , was born in 1521 , in the signiory of Montalto : his ...
... translated into French by Dupinet , 1564 , 8vo , and reprinted under the title of " La Banque Romaine , " 1700 , 12mo . ' SIXTUS V. ( POPE ) , whose proper names were FELIX PERETTI , was born in 1521 , in the signiory of Montalto : his ...
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... translated by Farneworth , folio , 1754 , and which the translator , with justice , calls one of the most remarkable and entertaining lives in ancient or modern history . studied in both universities . Wood claims him for Oxford SIXTUS V ...
... translated by Farneworth , folio , 1754 , and which the translator , with justice , calls one of the most remarkable and entertaining lives in ancient or modern history . studied in both universities . Wood claims him for Oxford SIXTUS V ...
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