Biographia Scotica; or, Scottish biographical dictionaryJ. Stark, 1805 - 400 páginas |
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... learning , and excellent talents , procured him an intimate correspondence and friendship with the celebrated wits of his time , Pope , Swift , | Gay , and Parnell . In 1727 he published " Tables of Ancient Coins , Weights , and ...
... learning , and excellent talents , procured him an intimate correspondence and friendship with the celebrated wits of his time , Pope , Swift , | Gay , and Parnell . In 1727 he published " Tables of Ancient Coins , Weights , and ...
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... learning , with that prince . Ballenden is he was sent to St. Andrews ; generally esteemed one of the and his inclinations leading him best Scottish poets of that age . to medicine as a profession , he He likewise translated into the ...
... learning , with that prince . Ballenden is he was sent to St. Andrews ; generally esteemed one of the and his inclinations leading him best Scottish poets of that age . to medicine as a profession , he He likewise translated into the ...
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... learning was a a treatise " De Conjunctione Religionis et Imperii . " great damp upon all attempts for the propagation of the gos- pel , he formed a design of erect- ing and endowing a college at Williamsburgh , in Virginia , for BLAIR ...
... learning was a a treatise " De Conjunctione Religionis et Imperii . " great damp upon all attempts for the propagation of the gos- pel , he formed a design of erect- ing and endowing a college at Williamsburgh , in Virginia , for BLAIR ...
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... learning . While he was yet a youth , heglected , owing to the death of followed the court , and , did his utmost to push his interest there ; but the fervour of his temper 20on precipitated him into quar - sedulously in private ; and ...
... learning . While he was yet a youth , heglected , owing to the death of followed the court , and , did his utmost to push his interest there ; but the fervour of his temper 20on precipitated him into quar - sedulously in private ; and ...
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... learning at the was appointed to this office , as school of Harrow on the Hill , containing every convenience father dying in 1758 , the inhe- ritance of his ancestors devolved upon him , and he returned to Britain . At the latter end ...
... learning at the was appointed to this office , as school of Harrow on the Hill , containing every convenience father dying in 1758 , the inhe- ritance of his ancestors devolved upon him , and he returned to Britain . At the latter end ...
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