A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons and Remarkable Characters in Every Age and NationLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - 454 страница |
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... memory . AINSWORTH ( ROBERT ) born at Woodyale , four miles from Man- chester , 1660 , was the compiler of a compendious English and Latin Dictionary , upon the plan of Faber's Thesaurus . This he finish ed and published in 1736 in 4to ...
... memory . AINSWORTH ( ROBERT ) born at Woodyale , four miles from Man- chester , 1660 , was the compiler of a compendious English and Latin Dictionary , upon the plan of Faber's Thesaurus . This he finish ed and published in 1736 in 4to ...
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... memory of that poet . This hap- pened in the 2d year of the 3d a ALEMBERT ( JOHN LE ROND Olympiad.Having settled the af ch secretary to the French Aca - fairs of Greece , and left Antipater of y , & c . and one of the ablest as his ...
... memory of that poet . This hap- pened in the 2d year of the 3d a ALEMBERT ( JOHN LE ROND Olympiad.Having settled the af ch secretary to the French Aca - fairs of Greece , and left Antipater of y , & c . and one of the ablest as his ...
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... memory of this daughter , he intitled his commentary upon the Decretals of Gregory , IX . " The Novellæ . " Andreas died of the plague at Bologna in 1348 , after he had been a professor 45 years , and was buried in the church of the ...
... memory of this daughter , he intitled his commentary upon the Decretals of Gregory , IX . " The Novellæ . " Andreas died of the plague at Bologna in 1348 , after he had been a professor 45 years , and was buried in the church of the ...
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... memory ; he was ranked among the gods , and almost every person had a statue of him in their houses . His book of " Meditations " has been much ad- mired by the best judges . ANTONIO ( NICHOLAS ) canon of Seville , and author of ...
... memory ; he was ranked among the gods , and almost every person had a statue of him in their houses . His book of " Meditations " has been much ad- mired by the best judges . ANTONIO ( NICHOLAS ) canon of Seville , and author of ...
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... memory . ARIUS , a divine of the fourth century , and the head and founder of the Arians , a seat which denied the eternal divinity and consubstan- tiality of the Word . He was bor in Lybia , near Egypt . The Arian principles ...
... memory . ARIUS , a divine of the fourth century , and the head and founder of the Arians , a seat which denied the eternal divinity and consubstan- tiality of the Word . He was bor in Lybia , near Egypt . The Arian principles ...
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