The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time |
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... I am a great deal older than your Grace , and have , I believe , heard more
arguments for Atheism than ever your Grace did ; but I have lived long enough to
see there is nothing in them ; and so I hope your Grace will . " He died October 21
...
... I am a great deal older than your Grace , and have , I believe , heard more
arguments for Atheism than ever your Grace did ; but I have lived long enough to
see there is nothing in them ; and so I hope your Grace will . " He died October 21
...
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| Title | The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time Volume 31 of The General Biographical Dictionary: 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 to the Present Time, Alexander Chalmers |
| Editor | Alexander Chalmers |
| Publisher | J. Nichols, 1817 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 15 May 2008 |
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