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A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 6 of 15 (Classic Reprint)

Author : William Tooke

Publisher : Forgotten Books

Page : 444 pages

File Size : 30,65 MB

Release : 2018-02-07

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780267995158

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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 6 of 15 Eulogius the Martyr, of Cordova. He was a zealous fupporter of the chrifiians againfi their perfecutors, the Sara cens of Spain, by whom at length he was beheaded in 859, after being electedoarchbithop 0 Toledo, but before he had received confecra'tion. Works of his fiill egttant are, 1. A Memorial of the Saints, a hifiory of fome mart rs. Logy for the Mart rs. An Exhortation to. Mhrtyrdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.





A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 15 (Classic Reprint)

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Page : 654 pages

File Size : 16,77 MB

Release : 2015-07-10

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781331104438

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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 15 But conceiving this to be the natural tendency of such works, and thinking it very allowable for authors in every nation to write more particularly for their countrymen than for any others, we have not been greatly solicitous to avoid it. At the same time, we have not omitted to consider, that if every person who attains a certain rank in the learned or active professions, were admitted to claim a place in such a repository, its extent would become too enormous to be useful. Besides adding the names which were deficient, attention has been employed throughout to improve the style, and correct the prominent errors of the former work. That these various ends might be attained within a moderate time, the proprietors divided the care of the undertaking between three literary men. For the first five volumes one gentleman is entirely responsible; the remaining ten were consigned to two writers, who, for no very important reason, chose to take them alternately. Though the work is apparently extended only by the addition of three volumes, the actual augmentation is much greater; the volumes being not only, in general, thicker than before, but so printed, as to contain in each page four or five lines more, than a page of the preceding edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.



A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 7 of 15 (Classic Reprint)

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Page : 402 pages

File Size : 47,64 MB

Release : 2018-02-05

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780267824724

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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 7 of 15 Gibson (william), was a {elf-taught mathematician, born at Boulton, near Appleby, in Wefimorland, in 1720. Died in 1791. His knowledge of the art of navigation, the principles of mechanics, the doctrine of motion, of falling bodies, and the elements of optics, though not evinced by any publications on thofe fubjeels, was [0 notorious to his countrymen, and fo frequently as well as ufefully exercifed, that it deferves thus to be recorded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.



A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 9 of 15

Author : William Tooke

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Page : 432 pages

File Size : 47,73 MB

Release : 2015-07-09

Category : History

ISBN : 9781331035121

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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 9 of 15: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation Jones (Inigo), the celebrated English architect, was born about 1572, in the neighbourhood of St. Paul's, London; of which city his father, Mr. Ignatius Jones, was a citizen, and by trade a clothworker. At a proper age, it is said, he put his son apprentice to a joiner, a business that requires some skill in drawing; and in that respect suited well with our architects inclination, which naturally led him to the art of designing. Genius concurred with inclination; he distinguished himself early by the extraordinary progress he made in those arts, and was particularly noticed for his skill in landscape-painting. These talents recommended him to William earl of Pembroke, at whose expence he travelled over Italy, and the politer parts of Europe; saw whatever was recommended by its antiquity or value; and from these plans formed his own observations, which, upon his return home, he perfected by study. But, before that, the improvements he made abroad gave such an eclat to his reputation throughout Europe, that Christian IV. king of Denmark sent for him from Venice, which was the chief place of his residence, and made him his architect-general. He had been some time possessed of this honourable poll, when that prince, whose sister Anne had married James I. made a visit to England in 1606; and our architect, being desirous to return to his native country, took that opportunity of coming home in the train of his Danish majesty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.



A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 6 of 8

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Page : 504 pages

File Size : 35,97 MB

Release : 2018-02-02

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780267557783

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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 6 of 8: Containing an Historical, Critical, and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation in the World, Particularly the British and Irish, From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period Gravina (peter), an eminent Italian poet, was born at Catauca iii Sicdy, became a canon of Naples, and died at Rome in 1528, aged 74. A collefiion of his poems was printed at Naples in 1532, in 4to; from which it appears, that the author was a negligent writer, and even af'fee'tedly fo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.



A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 12 of 15

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Page : 506 pages

File Size : 43,86 MB

Release : 2016-07-15

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781333059170

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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 12 of 15: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation But not content with this, he vifi'ted all the univerfities of Germany, Italy, France, and Spain, in order to learn phyfic; and then he took a journey to Pruflia, Lithuania, Poland, Wan lachia, Tranfilvania, Croatia; Portugal, Illyria, and the other countries of Europe, where he applied indifferently to phy Iicians, barbers, old women, conjurers, and both good and bad; from all which he gladly picked up an thi that might be ufeful, ' and then enlarged his ock/of are a approved remedies. He alfo learned from Bali}: Valentine's writings, the doe'trine of the three elements, which, Conceal ing the'rauthor's name, he adopted as his own, and publifhed under the appellation of Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."



A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 4 of 15 (Classic Reprint)

Author : William Tooke

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Page : 582 pages

File Size : 25,14 MB

Release : 2015-06-30

Category : History

ISBN : 9781330504352

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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 4 of 15 Cicero (Marcus Tullius), was one of the greatest men of antiquity, whether we consider him as an orator, a statement, or a philosopher. He was born Jan. 3, in the 647th year of Rome, about 107 years before Christ. His mother's name was Helvia, who was rich and well descended. As to his father's family, nothing was delivered of it but in extremes: which is not to be wondered at in the history of a man, whose life was so exposed to envy, as Cicero's, and who fell a victim at last to the power of his enemies. Some derive his descent from kings, other from mechanics: but the truth, as it commonly happens is such cases, lay between both: for his family, though it had never borne any of the great offices of the republic, was yet very ancient and honourable; of principal distinction and nobility in that part of Italy in which it resided; and of equestrian rank, from its first admission to the freedom of Rome. The place of his birth was Arpinum; a city anciently of the Samnites, now part of the kingdom of Naples. It had the honour also of producing the great C. Marius; which gave occasion to Pompey to say in a public speech, that Rome was indebted to this corporation for two citizen, who had, each in his turn, preserved it from ruin. The territory of Arpinum was rude and mountainous, to which Cicero applies Homer's description of Ithaca: 'Tis rough indeed, yet breeds a generous race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.





A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 5 of 15 (Classic Reprint)

Author : Pre-Imprint Collection

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Page : 558 pages

File Size : 15,4 MB

Release : 2017-12-19

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780484099424

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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 5 of 15 In i7oa came out his favourite tragedy, Liberty afferted, in which are fo many fevere firokes upon the french nation, that he thought they were never to be forgiven. He really per fuaded himfelf, as it is related of him, that the king of France would never make peace with England, unlefs the author of Liberty aflerted was delivered up to him and Upon this full perfuafion of his own imnortance, is (aid to have waited on his patron, the duke of Marlborough, when the congrefs was held at Utrecht for'a treaty of peace, to delire that no fnch article might be flipulated, as his being given up. The duke told him, that he was forry he could not ferve him, for he really had no interefk with any of the miniflers of that time; but (aid, that he fancied his cafe was not fo defperate as he imagined that he had indeed made no fuch provifion for himfel'f, yet tould not help thinking, that he had done the French almoft as much damage as even Mr. Dennis himfelf. Another Itory re; lating to this affair is, that walking near the beach of the fest, when he was 'at a gentleman's houfe on the coal't of Suffex, he faw a fhip failing, as he imagined, towards him. Upon this he fufpeeied himfelf betrayed, and therefore made the' beft of his way to London, without taking any leave of his hoft, but pro claiming him a traitor, who, he faid, had decoyed him down to his houfe, that he might give him up to the French; who had cer'tainly carried him off, if he had not efcaped as he did. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.