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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... brought him to an amende honorable . He had more difficulty to reconcile himself with the Jesuits whom he had offended by an epitaph on their great antagonist the celebrated Arnauld ; and though he endeavoured to ap- pease them by a ...
... brought him to an amende honorable . He had more difficulty to reconcile himself with the Jesuits whom he had offended by an epitaph on their great antagonist the celebrated Arnauld ; and though he endeavoured to ap- pease them by a ...
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... brought back with him the Abbot William , has not been clearly ascertained . Stephanius maintains that he was the same person ; but this opinion is contro- verted by Sperling , in his notes to Absolon's Testament , and by the learned ...
... brought back with him the Abbot William , has not been clearly ascertained . Stephanius maintains that he was the same person ; but this opinion is contro- verted by Sperling , in his notes to Absolon's Testament , and by the learned ...
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... brought on a disease which rendered all the rest of his life a series of suffering . After the most acute pains , he lost the use of his limbs , which became contracted in such a manner that he compared his body to the shape of the ...
... brought on a disease which rendered all the rest of his life a series of suffering . After the most acute pains , he lost the use of his limbs , which became contracted in such a manner that he compared his body to the shape of the ...
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... brought from Herenburg in the duchy of Wurtemburg to the University of Tubingen , in the early part of the 17th century , where he was made Hebrew professor . To his acquaintance with that lan- guage he added that of the Oriental ...
... brought from Herenburg in the duchy of Wurtemburg to the University of Tubingen , in the early part of the 17th century , where he was made Hebrew professor . To his acquaintance with that lan- guage he added that of the Oriental ...
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... brought to perfection at Mentz . Schoepflin had collected a fine library and museum , which he liberally presented to the city of Strasburg ; of this , Oberlin published a description under the title of " Museum Schoepflinianum . " This ...
... brought to perfection at Mentz . Schoepflin had collected a fine library and museum , which he liberally presented to the city of Strasburg ; of this , Oberlin published a description under the title of " Museum Schoepflinianum . " This ...
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