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A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 1
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 n...
A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 1
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 Nations; Particularly the British and Irish; From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period; Wherein Their Remarkable Actions or Suffer As it is unnecessary to shew the usefulness of an accurate historical account of such persons and facts as have been the objects of public attention in all ages and nations, nothing more can be expected in a preface to this work, than an account of the manner in which it is executed, and the reasons why it was not thought to be precluded by any other work of the fame kind that ...
