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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... play Steele carried to the theatre , and afterwards to the press , and sold the copy for fifty guineas . In the midst of these agreeable employ ments Mr. Addison was not an in- different spectator of public affairs , He wrote , as ...
... play Steele carried to the theatre , and afterwards to the press , and sold the copy for fifty guineas . In the midst of these agreeable employ ments Mr. Addison was not an in- different spectator of public affairs , He wrote , as ...
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... play before their princes . Having thus acquired an exa & know- ledge of their situation , he returned in great secrecy to his nobility , whom he ordered to their respect- ive homes , there to draw together each man as great a force as ...
... play before their princes . Having thus acquired an exa & know- ledge of their situation , he returned in great secrecy to his nobility , whom he ordered to their respect- ive homes , there to draw together each man as great a force as ...
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... plays . entered into deacon's orders , but never qualified as a priest , having obtained a clerkship at the board of controul under Mr. Dundas . He translated , from the Greek of Ar . chimedes , " Arenarius , a treatise on measuring the ...
... plays . entered into deacon's orders , but never qualified as a priest , having obtained a clerkship at the board of controul under Mr. Dundas . He translated , from the Greek of Ar . chimedes , " Arenarius , a treatise on measuring the ...
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... play ; and it was wittily observed of him , that he had been round the world , but never in it . See ROBINS . ANSTIS ( JOHN ) an able herald and antiquary , and very eminent writer on heraldic subje @ s , born at St. Neot's in Cornwall ...
... play ; and it was wittily observed of him , that he had been round the world , but never in it . See ROBINS . ANSTIS ( JOHN ) an able herald and antiquary , and very eminent writer on heraldic subje @ s , born at St. Neot's in Cornwall ...
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... plays were written during the Peloponnesian war . His ima- gination was warm and lively , and his genius particularly turned to raillery : he had also great spirit and resolution , and was a declared enemy to slavery , and to all those ...
... plays were written during the Peloponnesian war . His ima- gination was warm and lively , and his genius particularly turned to raillery : he had also great spirit and resolution , and was a declared enemy to slavery , and to all those ...
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