The 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 to the Present Time, المجلد 21Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1815 |
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... Greek poet and grammarian , was a native of Chalcis , in Euboea , and according to Ovid , was killed by a shot with an arrow . He flourished about 304 years before Christ , and wrote a poem entitled " Alex- audra , " or Cassandra ...
... Greek poet and grammarian , was a native of Chalcis , in Euboea , and according to Ovid , was killed by a shot with an arrow . He flourished about 304 years before Christ , and wrote a poem entitled " Alex- audra , " or Cassandra ...
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... Greek and Latin languages , and even to theology . After travelling in various parts of Europe , and visiting England in 1732 , he obtained an appointment at the court of Denmark ; but , being ambitious of a more public station , he ...
... Greek and Latin languages , and even to theology . After travelling in various parts of Europe , and visiting England in 1732 , he obtained an appointment at the court of Denmark ; but , being ambitious of a more public station , he ...
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... Greek language while at Oldenburgh , he made so much progress , that by comparing the best commentators he was enabled to write a good paraphrase on " The Epistles of St. Paul , " & c . which was afterwards published . He wrote also ...
... Greek language while at Oldenburgh , he made so much progress , that by comparing the best commentators he was enabled to write a good paraphrase on " The Epistles of St. Paul , " & c . which was afterwards published . He wrote also ...
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... Greek orator , was born at Syra- cuse , about the year 459 B. C. He was educated at Athens , and became a teacher of rhetoric , and composed orations for others , but does not appear to have been a pleader . Of his orations , which are ...
... Greek orator , was born at Syra- cuse , about the year 459 B. C. He was educated at Athens , and became a teacher of rhetoric , and composed orations for others , but does not appear to have been a pleader . Of his orations , which are ...
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... Greeks and Romans , and even the ancient Gauls , he went as far as most of his contemporaries in undervaluing the preroga- tives of the crown , and introducing a representative go- vernment , In his latter works his own mind appears to ...
... Greeks and Romans , and even the ancient Gauls , he went as far as most of his contemporaries in undervaluing the preroga- tives of the crown , and introducing a representative go- vernment , In his latter works his own mind appears to ...
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