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... educated under Egbert , arch- took possesion of the body , and buried it in a bishop of that province , and the venerable Bede . town named Melissa , where the emperor Adrian His reputation as a polemic procured him an long after caused ...
... educated under Egbert , arch- took possesion of the body , and buried it in a bishop of that province , and the venerable Bede . town named Melissa , where the emperor Adrian His reputation as a polemic procured him an long after caused ...
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... educated at Oxford , in which university he was a member , first of Lincoln , afterwards of Corpus Christi college . - Biog . Brit . ALLEN ( THOMAS ) an eminent scholar of the reign of Elizabeth , considered the first ma- thematician of ...
... educated at Oxford , in which university he was a member , first of Lincoln , afterwards of Corpus Christi college . - Biog . Brit . ALLEN ( THOMAS ) an eminent scholar of the reign of Elizabeth , considered the first ma- thematician of ...
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... educated , and distinguished his reign by an assiduous encouragement of the cultivation of the sciences . For this purpose , he collected from Greece all the works on science in that language , and procured skilful interpreters to ...
... educated , and distinguished his reign by an assiduous encouragement of the cultivation of the sciences . For this purpose , he collected from Greece all the works on science in that language , and procured skilful interpreters to ...
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... educated at Bury St. Edmunds , tertained of her reaching the island again , that whence he removed to Eton , and succeeded in much labour was employed to lengthen a small 1742 to a scholarship in King's College , Cam- vessel found on ...
... educated at Bury St. Edmunds , tertained of her reaching the island again , that whence he removed to Eton , and succeeded in much labour was employed to lengthen a small 1742 to a scholarship in King's College , Cam- vessel found on ...
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... educated at Cambridge and Leyden . About bridge , in the beginning of the 18th century . He was chaplain to Dr Patrick , bishop of Ely , through whose interest he obtained preferment in the church ; and in 1702 he held the office of ...
... educated at Cambridge and Leyden . About bridge , in the beginning of the 18th century . He was chaplain to Dr Patrick , bishop of Ely , through whose interest he obtained preferment in the church ; and in 1702 he held the office of ...
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