General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons Of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order, Volume 9Robinson, 1814 - 644 pages |
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... attached to the Papal communion , he was deprived of that office after the accession of Queen Elizabeth , and , in 1560 , was compelled to seek for safety in exile . He now went to Rome , where he was ordained priest , and created ...
... attached to the Papal communion , he was deprived of that office after the accession of Queen Elizabeth , and , in 1560 , was compelled to seek for safety in exile . He now went to Rome , where he was ordained priest , and created ...
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... attached to its members ; and , upon the succession of Frederic to the throne , he was rewarded with a pension of 600 ducats , and the donation of the pleasant villa of Mer- goglino , so much celebrated in his poems under the name of ...
... attached to its members ; and , upon the succession of Frederic to the throne , he was rewarded with a pension of 600 ducats , and the donation of the pleasant villa of Mer- goglino , so much celebrated in his poems under the name of ...
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... attached to the Roman than the Persian empire , and under Valens the influence of the former was in great measure restored . Sapor , at length , in 380 , terminated by a peaceable death his long and rest- less reign , with the renown of ...
... attached to the Roman than the Persian empire , and under Valens the influence of the former was in great measure restored . Sapor , at length , in 380 , terminated by a peaceable death his long and rest- less reign , with the renown of ...
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... attached himself with ardour to the study of philosophy and the mathematics , and to that of the Greek and Hebrew , languages . He received lessons in philosophy from John Maria Capella , a monk of the order of Servites , in high repute ...
... attached himself with ardour to the study of philosophy and the mathematics , and to that of the Greek and Hebrew , languages . He received lessons in philosophy from John Maria Capella , a monk of the order of Servites , in high repute ...
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... attached to licen tious pleasures to live happily in a domestic union , and he obtained a divorce in 1721 , after which he never married again . In the mean- time he was pursuing his military career , and in 1717 he served in Hungary ...
... attached to licen tious pleasures to live happily in a domestic union , and he obtained a divorce in 1721 , after which he never married again . In the mean- time he was pursuing his military career , and in 1717 he served in Hungary ...
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