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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 1: 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 of Time to the Present Period The General Dictionary, as it includes Bayle, is {0 far liable to the fame objeé'tions: it is in deed augmented with other articles, but they alfo are Written in Bayle's manner, and for that reafon the work upon the whole is not much better adapted to general ufe. There are many redundancies, and yet'there are many defects and there is befides an objeétion' of more weight though of another kind, the work confif'ting of no lefs than ten volumes in. Folio, for which the purchafer mul't pay much mor. 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.