The General Biographical Dictionary, 第 15 卷Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE PRESENT TIME . A NEW EDITION , REVISED AND ENLARGED BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS , F. S. A. VOL . XV . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. NICHOLS AND SON ; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON ; T. PAYNE ; OTRIDGE AND SON ; G. AND W. NICOL ...
... EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE PRESENT TIME . A NEW EDITION , REVISED AND ENLARGED BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS , F. S. A. VOL . XV . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. NICHOLS AND SON ; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON ; T. PAYNE ; OTRIDGE AND SON ; G. AND W. NICOL ...
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... early days in obscurity . Ingenuity and perseverance , however , enabled them to establish a press from which have issued some of the finest specimens of correct and elegant printing which the eighteenth cen- tury has produced . Even ...
... early days in obscurity . Ingenuity and perseverance , however , enabled them to establish a press from which have issued some of the finest specimens of correct and elegant printing which the eighteenth cen- tury has produced . Even ...
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... early as the reign of Henry III . was educated as a commoner of Christ- church , Oxford , under the care of that eminent encou- rager of literature , Dr. Aldrich . He at the same time studied under Dr. Hickes the Anglo - Saxon language ...
... early as the reign of Henry III . was educated as a commoner of Christ- church , Oxford , under the care of that eminent encou- rager of literature , Dr. Aldrich . He at the same time studied under Dr. Hickes the Anglo - Saxon language ...
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... early attachment to music and lively poetry , he attempted to write for the theatre , and had no higher ambition than to become a player , but the bad success of one of his friends who had encouraged this taste , cured him of it , and ...
... early attachment to music and lively poetry , he attempted to write for the theatre , and had no higher ambition than to become a player , but the bad success of one of his friends who had encouraged this taste , cured him of it , and ...
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... early period to expect nothing but from his services ; and he was destined to prove by his example , that virtue is one of the roads to fortune , and perhaps not the least secure . Engaged in every campaign of the war of 1740 , he was ...
... early period to expect nothing but from his services ; and he was destined to prove by his example , that virtue is one of the roads to fortune , and perhaps not the least secure . Engaged in every campaign of the war of 1740 , he was ...
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