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... entitled , Arcanum Punctuationis Revelatum , & c . which , after being refused a licence in France and at Geneva , was printed in Holland , and caused much disquiet among the protestants , as if it had a tendency to hurt their cause ...
... entitled , Arcanum Punctuationis Revelatum , & c . which , after being refused a licence in France and at Geneva , was printed in Holland , and caused much disquiet among the protestants , as if it had a tendency to hurt their cause ...
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... entitled , Lo Strata- gema di Carolo IX . contra gli Ugonotti , Rome , 1572 , 4to . This work , which excited considerable attention on its first appearance , and contains much curious information , gave offence to the cardinal of ...
... entitled , Lo Strata- gema di Carolo IX . contra gli Ugonotti , Rome , 1572 , 4to . This work , which excited considerable attention on its first appearance , and contains much curious information , gave offence to the cardinal of ...
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... entitled , Monument élevé à la Gloire de Pierre- le - Grand , & c . par le Comte Marin Carburi , folio . Carburi was assassinated in 1782 , in his native island , whither he had obtained permission from the Venetian republic to return ...
... entitled , Monument élevé à la Gloire de Pierre- le - Grand , & c . par le Comte Marin Carburi , folio . Carburi was assassinated in 1782 , in his native island , whither he had obtained permission from the Venetian republic to return ...
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... entitled De Dyptichis , contains some curious information re- specting ancient public registers ; copies of which are still to be seen in France , at Sens , Dijon , and Besançon , and have been well described by M. Coste , the librarian ...
... entitled De Dyptichis , contains some curious information re- specting ancient public registers ; copies of which are still to be seen in France , at Sens , Dijon , and Besançon , and have been well described by M. Coste , the librarian ...
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... entitled , Dialogo de la Pintura , sa Defensa , Origen , Essencia , Definicion , Modos y Diferencias , Madrid , 1633 , 4to . Carducci had many pupils , among whom was the celebrated Ricci , painter to Philip IV . and Charles II . CAREME ...
... entitled , Dialogo de la Pintura , sa Defensa , Origen , Essencia , Definicion , Modos y Diferencias , Madrid , 1633 , 4to . Carducci had many pupils , among whom was the celebrated Ricci , painter to Philip IV . and Charles II . CAREME ...
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Page 411 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it.
Page 384 - In 1670 the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the university of Oxford, at the same time with the prince of Orange, afterwards William III.
Page 92 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Page 367 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 476 - Essai sur les maladies et les lésions organiques du cœur et des gros vaisseaux
Page 286 - The Religion of Protestants a safe Way to Salvation ; or, an Answer to a Book* entitled ' Mercy and Truth ; or. Charity maintained by Catholics,' which pretends to prove the contrary.
Page 207 - He covers his defects with a daring, fiery spirit that animates his translation ; which is something like what one might imagine Homer himself to have writ before he arrived at years of discretion.
Page 36 - L'Orient, that when you have finished your military career in this world, you may be buried in one of your trophies. But that that period may be far distant, is the earnest wish of your sincere friend, Benjamin Hallowell.
Page 459 - An admonition to the people of England- Wherein are answered, not onley the slaunderous vntruethes, reprochfully vttered by MARTIN the Libeller, but also many other Crimes by some of his broode, objected generally against all Bishops, and the chief e of the Cleargie, purposely to deface and discredit the present state of the Church.
Page 457 - Sir (addressing himself to the Speaker), I, who rise only to give my opinion on the Bill now depending, am so confounded that I am unable to express the least of what I proposed to say, what must the condition of that man be, who, without any assistance, is pleading for his life, and under apprehension of being deprived of it...