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 NationT. Bensley, Bolt-court, Fleet-street, 1799 - 436 страница |
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... present , afterwards endowed it with lands to the value of 300l . per ann . The archbishop , being in a declining state of health , used in the summer to go to Hampshire for the sake of recreation ; and being in- vited by lord Zouch to ...
... present , afterwards endowed it with lands to the value of 300l . per ann . The archbishop , being in a declining state of health , used in the summer to go to Hampshire for the sake of recreation ; and being in- vited by lord Zouch to ...
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... present State of the War , & c . The Whig Examiner ; and The Trial of Count Tariff ; " all which trafts , being on temporary topics , expired with the subjects which gave them birth . known by becoming tutor to her son . This marriage ...
... present State of the War , & c . The Whig Examiner ; and The Trial of Count Tariff ; " all which trafts , being on temporary topics , expired with the subjects which gave them birth . known by becoming tutor to her son . This marriage ...
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... present at a sermon in the great church of Va lencia on the day of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin , in 1487 . Upon this he desired to be baptized ; and in memory of the calling of St. John and St. Andrew , he took the names of ...
... present at a sermon in the great church of Va lencia on the day of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin , in 1487 . Upon this he desired to be baptized ; and in memory of the calling of St. John and St. Andrew , he took the names of ...
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... Present State of Gloucestershire , " printed in folio , 1712. This great and valu- able work he lived to perfect , but died the year before it was pub- lished . ATLAS , king of Mauritania , a celebrated astronomer , said to have been ...
... Present State of Gloucestershire , " printed in folio , 1712. This great and valu- able work he lived to perfect , but died the year before it was pub- lished . ATLAS , king of Mauritania , a celebrated astronomer , said to have been ...
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... present his majesty ( with a view , no doubt , of standing better in his favour ) with the chair of state and royal canopy , his own perquisites as dean of West- minster , the offer was rejected , not His illness , which was slight ...
... present his majesty ( with a view , no doubt , of standing better in his favour ) with the chair of state and royal canopy , his own perquisites as dean of West- minster , the offer was rejected , not His illness , which was slight ...
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