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 |
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... thought it therefore advifeable to fend two of his friends to the nabob , to treat for peace ; but their return convinced him that the nabob was fixed in his hatred to the English , and would not negociate , excepting with a view of ...
... thought it therefore advifeable to fend two of his friends to the nabob , to treat for peace ; but their return convinced him that the nabob was fixed in his hatred to the English , and would not negociate , excepting with a view of ...
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... thought , he took the field , in order to quell , without the affiftance of the Englith , three different rebellions which had arifen in different parts of the country ; but when , as the time of action approached , he weighed his own ...
... thought , he took the field , in order to quell , without the affiftance of the Englith , three different rebellions which had arifen in different parts of the country ; but when , as the time of action approached , he weighed his own ...
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... thought proper , have continued feveral years longer to delight the public in various characters adapted to her figure and time of life ; for to the laft fhe was admirable and unrivalled . On this occafion we are told , that Mr. Garrick ...
... thought proper , have continued feveral years longer to delight the public in various characters adapted to her figure and time of life ; for to the laft fhe was admirable and unrivalled . On this occafion we are told , that Mr. Garrick ...
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... thought proper to publish it , hoping that nothing in the fentiment or expreffion will be found unworthy of the facred function of a preacher of the Gospel , or of the serious attention of a Chriftian allembly . " In 1748 he published ...
... thought proper to publish it , hoping that nothing in the fentiment or expreffion will be found unworthy of the facred function of a preacher of the Gospel , or of the serious attention of a Chriftian allembly . " In 1748 he published ...
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... thought himself in a condition to pretend to a lady of one of the beft families , and at the fame time of the best fortune in Nor- folk . The lady was Bridget , daughter and coheirefs of John Pf- VOL . IV . E ton , ton , Efq . whom he ...
... thought himself in a condition to pretend to a lady of one of the beft families , and at the fame time of the best fortune in Nor- folk . The lady was Bridget , daughter and coheirefs of John Pf- VOL . IV . E ton , ton , Efq . whom he ...
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