A General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1Whittaker and Company, 1833 |
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... literary labours in all these situations , and died at Venice in the year 1508 , aged 71 , leaving three sons , all of whom became more or less distinguished . Such was the esteem in which this rabbi was held , his funeral was ...
... literary labours in all these situations , and died at Venice in the year 1508 , aged 71 , leaving three sons , all of whom became more or less distinguished . Such was the esteem in which this rabbi was held , his funeral was ...
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... literary vehicles for general instruction and amusement . The assistance of Addison in the Tatler was considerable ; for Steele , with great modesty , describes himself in the situation of a weak prince , who calls in a powerful aux ...
... literary vehicles for general instruction and amusement . The assistance of Addison in the Tatler was considerable ; for Steele , with great modesty , describes himself in the situation of a weak prince , who calls in a powerful aux ...
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... literary talents were uniformly exercised in the cause of virtue and of social ease and decorum , it is impossible not to regard him as at once an honour to his country and a benefactor to mankind.— Biog . Brit . tled " The Old Whig ...
... literary talents were uniformly exercised in the cause of virtue and of social ease and decorum , it is impossible not to regard him as at once an honour to his country and a benefactor to mankind.— Biog . Brit . tled " The Old Whig ...
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... literary influence a reaction which¦ our Chesterfield clearly foresaw , before such influence had materially operated , and which even Louis XV so far anticipated as to express himself consoled by his conviction , that the disordered ...
... literary influence a reaction which¦ our Chesterfield clearly foresaw , before such influence had materially operated , and which even Louis XV so far anticipated as to express himself consoled by his conviction , that the disordered ...
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... literary pursuits , ture the Manilla galleon , although greatly su- but after a while resided for the most part at perior to his own ship in size and number of Bath . He had long cultivated poetry , but men . At the very moment of ...
... literary pursuits , ture the Manilla galleon , although greatly su- but after a while resided for the most part at perior to his own ship in size and number of Bath . He had long cultivated poetry , but men . At the very moment of ...
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