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A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 3 of 8

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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780267887071

Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 3 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 His lafl grand work was A political Survey of Britain being a Series of Reﬂections on the Situation, Lands, Inhabitants, Reve nues, Colonies, and Commerce, of this Illand. Intended to thew, that they have not as yet approached near the fummit of improve ment, but that it will afiord employment to many generations, be fore they puih to their utmoll: extent the natural advantages of Great Britain. This work, which was publifhed in 1774, in two volumes, royal quarto, Colt Dr. Campbell many years or attention, ﬂudy, and labour. As it was his lait, (o it feems to have been his favourite production, upon which he intended to ereet a durable monument of his fincere and ardent love to his country. A more truly patriotic publication never appeared in the Englith language. The variety of information it contains is prodigious; and there is no book that better deferves the clofe and conllant ﬂudy of the poli tician, the fenator, the gentleman, the merchant, the manufaeturer; in thort, of every one who has it in any degree in his power to pro mote the interefi and welfare ofgreat Britain. Among other eneo miums produced by Dr. Kippis on the literary merit of his prede celtor, that of the author of the Account of the European Settle ments in America, is perhaps the mall honourable. Dr. Camp bell's reputation was not confined to his own country, but extended to the remoteil parts or Europe. As a ﬂriking inltance of this we may mention, that in the. Fpring of 1774, the emprefs oi Ruliia was pleafed to honour him With the prefent of her picture, drawn in the robes worn in that country in the days of john Bafiliowitz, grand duke of Mufcovy, who was contemporary with Qieen Elizabeth. To maniief't the doctor's feule of her imperial majelly's goodnefs, a fett of The Political Survey of Britain.' bound in morocco, highly ornamented, and accompanied with a letter (lefcriptive oi the triumphs and felicities of her reign, was forwarded to St. Peterfburg, and conveyed into the hands of that great princefs, by George Gre gorio Orloiﬂ who had relided lome months in this kingdom. The emprefs's pifiure, fince the death of our author, hath been prefented by his Widow to Lord Macaziizey. 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: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Ever

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-03-03

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 9781379147435

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

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Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780282731960

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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; Particularly the British and Irish; From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period The firfi play Jonfon printed was the comedy, intituled, . Every Man in his Humour; after which he produced a play regularly every year for fome years fucceﬂively: and in 1600 he made his court, in a noble manner, to queen Eliza beth, whom he complimented under the all°go'rical perfonaoc bf the goddefs Cynthia, in his Cynthia's Revels, which was added that year by the children of the queen's chapel [f]. He feems to have been a competitor for the poetic crown at this time lime, in his next piece, The Poetafler, which was reprefented by the fame performers in 1601, he ridicules his rival Decker, under the, character of (frifpinus. He was taxed alfo with particular reﬂections in it on fome profeﬂ'ors of the law, and fome military men, wh0'were well known at: that time. The popular clamours againfl him upon this occa iion ran very high and to thefe he replied, in Vindication of himfelf, by an apologetical dialogue, which was once (poken upon the fiage, and which he annexed, on the'publication of his works, to the end of this play but Decker was bent upon revenge, and refolved, if poffible, to conquer Jonfon at his own weapons. In this fpirit he ete a'play immediately after, intituled, Satyromaftix, or, The untrufiing the hu mourous Poet; in which Jonfon is introduced under the character of Horace Junior. The enemies of Jonfon indultri coﬂy gave out, that all he more was produced with extreme labour, and that he was not lefs than a year about every play. This objection, had it been true, was really no difgrace to him the bell: authors know by eitperieiice, that what appears to be the molt natural and eafy writing is frequently the effect of {tudy and the clofeft application. But their defign was to infinuate, that Jonfon had no parts and a poor imagination to which he retorted in the prologue to his f'volpone, or, The Fox and thence we learn, that the whole play finifhed by him in five weeks. 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.

The General Biographical Dictionary

Author: Alexander Chalmers

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2013-01

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9781314028157

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A New General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3

Author: Hugh James Rose

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-12-13

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9781348044185

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

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Published: 2015-07-10

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9781331104223

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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 7 of 15 Gesner (Conrad), an eminent scholar, physician, and philosopher, was born at Zurich in Switzerland in 1516, where he also received the first rudiments of learning. He discovered great facility of genius; but the circumstances of his father would not allow him to make his son a scholar, and he was about to discontinue his studies, when Ammien, professor of Latin and eloquence at Zurich, took him to his own house, and charged himself with the care of his education, By the death of his father, he was a second time reduced to great extremities, and fell into a dropsical disorder. On the recovery of his health, he resolved to travel, and seek his fortune. He went to Strasburg, where he made some progress in the hebrew language; and, the civil wars of Switzerland having subsided, he was allowed a pension from the academy of Zurich, to enable him to make the tour of France. He accordingly went to Paris, accompanied by John Frisius, the early friend of his youth, and partner of his studies. From Paris he returned to Strasburg, whence he was invited by the university of Zurich, to preside over a school. Here he married, but, finding his appointment inadequate to the maintenance of a family, he was obliged to seek for other resources. From his childhood he had a great propensity to study physic, and he now devoted all the time he could spare from his school to books of medicine. At length he left in disgust his situation at Zurich, and proceeded to Basil, where he employed his time in reading the greek physicians in their own language, till he was made greek professor at Lausanne. 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. 15 of 15

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Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9781331034971

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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 15 of 15: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation Tollius (Jacobus), a physician and very learned man, was a native of Ingra, in the territory of Utrecht; and taught the belles lettres in his own country with great reputation and profit for some time. In 1684, the marquis of Brandenburg appointed him professor of eloquence and the Greek tongue. He made several journeys into different parts of Germany, into Hungary, and Italy; of which he has given some account in a posthumous work, published under the title of "Epistolae itinerariae," by Henninius, at Amsderdam, 1700, in 4to. It is said there are some useful and curious things on these epistles. Tollius was an editor of two antient authors, of "Asonius, cum notis variorum, 1671," 8vo; and of "Langinus, 1694," 4to, with a Latin version in the same page, and Boileau's French version in the opposite. He was a critic of more learning than judgement, as the title of the following work may shew: "Fortuita sacra, in quibus praeter critica nonnulla tota fabularis historia Graeca, Ph nicia, AEgyptiaca, ad chymian pertinere asseritur, 1687," in 8vo. He pushedthis extravagant notion so far as to seek for the secrets of chymistry and the philosopher's stone in the fables of Paganism. This does not shew a very sound judgement; yet there is a great deal of learning, and some curious things, in his book. He died in 1696. He had brother, named Cornelius Tollius, who was also a very learned man. 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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Published: 2015-07-10

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 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. 9 of 15

Author: William Tooke

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Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 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.

NEW & GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL DIC

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-28

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781372223471

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