A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions Or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are Accurately Displayed : with a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions, Volume 1T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 - Biography |
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... Roman Catholicks in his diocèfe . 10. La triomphe de la providence et de la religion , ou l'ouverture des fept fceaux par le fils de Dieu ; Am- fterdam , 1723. The triumph of pro- vidence and religion , or the opening the feven feals by ...
... Roman Catholicks in his diocèfe . 10. La triomphe de la providence et de la religion , ou l'ouverture des fept fceaux par le fils de Dieu ; Am- fterdam , 1723. The triumph of pro- vidence and religion , or the opening the feven feals by ...
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... Roman Ca- 7. Antilogia : adverfus apologiam Andreæ Eudæmon Johannis Jefuitæ , pro Henrico Garnetto Jefuito pro- ditore , 1513 : 8. De gratia & perfeverantia fan & to- rum , exercitationes habitæ in aca- demia Oxonienfi , 1618 . 9. In ...
... Roman Ca- 7. Antilogia : adverfus apologiam Andreæ Eudæmon Johannis Jefuitæ , pro Henrico Garnetto Jefuito pro- ditore , 1513 : 8. De gratia & perfeverantia fan & to- rum , exercitationes habitæ in aca- demia Oxonienfi , 1618 . 9. In ...
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... Roman Catholics , that father Bartolocci was defirous the Jews fhould be forbid the perusal of them . And he tells us that they were ac- cordingly not allowed to read or to keep in their houses Abrabanel's com- mentaries on the latter ...
... Roman Catholics , that father Bartolocci was defirous the Jews fhould be forbid the perusal of them . And he tells us that they were ac- cordingly not allowed to read or to keep in their houses Abrabanel's com- mentaries on the latter ...
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... Romans , where the first cohort of the Spani- ards were in garrifon , as the name implies , as alfo its fituation on a ri- fing hill ; for the Britons called fuch a mount Dunum . But take an ac- count of this place from Richard , its ...
... Romans , where the first cohort of the Spani- ards were in garrifon , as the name implies , as alfo its fituation on a ri- fing hill ; for the Britons called fuch a mount Dunum . But take an ac- count of this place from Richard , its ...
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... of the Roman or Civil Law are contained and digested , by order of the emperor Juftinian . which he did for fix years . He was afterwards which 38 A CCA . things relating to ecclefiaftical ufage and difcipline. Acca ...
... of the Roman or Civil Law are contained and digested , by order of the emperor Juftinian . which he did for fix years . He was afterwards which 38 A CCA . things relating to ecclefiaftical ufage and difcipline. Acca ...
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Page 51 - ... but this even balance of opinion is not maintained in the pagan epitaph which was placed on his tomb : — ' Hospes, Achillinum tumulo qui quaeris in isto, Falleris, ille suo iunctus Aristoteli Elysium colit, et quas rerum hie discere causas Vix potuit, plenis nunc videt ille oculis : . Tu modo, per campos dum nohilis umbra beatos Errat, die longum perpftuumque vale.'2 Meanwhile, a decree of the Lateran Council; published on 19 Dec.
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