The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, 25 tomasAlexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1816 |
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... Latin verses on the death of George the First , it is natural to suspect that the whole merit was not his own . When he quitted the university , Pitt was for a time in the army , and served as a cornet ; but his talents leading him more ...
... Latin verses on the death of George the First , it is natural to suspect that the whole merit was not his own . When he quitted the university , Pitt was for a time in the army , and served as a cornet ; but his talents leading him more ...
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... Latin and Tuscan languages . In 1431 he attended cardinal Dominic Capranica to the council of Basil as his secretary . He was likewise in the same capacity with car- dinal Albergoti , who sent him to Scotland to mediate a peace betwixt ...
... Latin and Tuscan languages . In 1431 he attended cardinal Dominic Capranica to the council of Basil as his secretary . He was likewise in the same capacity with car- dinal Albergoti , who sent him to Scotland to mediate a peace betwixt ...
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... Latin churches , God had at last inspired them with a resolution of submitting to it ; that it had been solemnly agreed to , in an assembly called together for that purpose ; and that for the future they would unanimously PIUS . 27.
... Latin churches , God had at last inspired them with a resolution of submitting to it ; that it had been solemnly agreed to , in an assembly called together for that purpose ; and that for the future they would unanimously PIUS . 27.
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... Latin , and laid up amongst the archives of the Roman church . A few days after the arrival of these ambassadors from the east , there came others also from Peloponnesus , who offered obedience to the pope , and he received them in the ...
... Latin , and laid up amongst the archives of the Roman church . A few days after the arrival of these ambassadors from the east , there came others also from Peloponnesus , who offered obedience to the pope , and he received them in the ...
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... Latin PLATEANUS , a learned French writer , was born at Angoulême in 1526. He ap- plied with success to the study of jurisprudence , and in 1548 published a Latin paraphrase on the titles of the Imperial institutes , " De Actionibus ...
... Latin PLATEANUS , a learned French writer , was born at Angoulême in 1526. He ap- plied with success to the study of jurisprudence , and in 1548 published a Latin paraphrase on the titles of the Imperial institutes , " De Actionibus ...
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