A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 1: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons ... Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present P - Softcover

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This contains fome account of every life that has been fufiiciently dif'tinguifhed to be record ed not indeed a lift of all the Names which are to be found in chronological and regal tables (for of many nominal rulers both Of the Church and State it can only be faid that they lived and died) but 'a judicious narrative of the aaions ori. Twntmgs, the honours or difgraces, of all thofe whofe Virtues, Parts, Learning, or even Vices, have preferved them from oblivion in any records.

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