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, Том 22Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1815 |
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... church - yard . He was knighted by the duke of Queensbury , lord high commis- sioner , being the last instance of that honour conferred in Scotland while a separate kingdom . He painted most of the Scotch nobility ; but was not rich ...
... church - yard . He was knighted by the duke of Queensbury , lord high commis- sioner , being the last instance of that honour conferred in Scotland while a separate kingdom . He painted most of the Scotch nobility ; but was not rich ...
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... churches within his dominions . He was next engaged to draw up , conjointly with Luther , a system of laws relating to church government , public wor- ship , the ranks , offices , and revenues of the priesthood , and other matters of a ...
... churches within his dominions . He was next engaged to draw up , conjointly with Luther , a system of laws relating to church government , public wor- ship , the ranks , offices , and revenues of the priesthood , and other matters of a ...
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... church of Rome . To the adherents of that church it could not therefore be acceptable , and John Faber , afterwards bishop of Vienne in Dauphiné , with Eckius and Cochlæus , were selected to draw up a refutation , to which Melanc- thon ...
... church of Rome . To the adherents of that church it could not therefore be acceptable , and John Faber , afterwards bishop of Vienne in Dauphiné , with Eckius and Cochlæus , were selected to draw up a refutation , to which Melanc- thon ...
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... church of the castle , two days after . Some days before he died , he wrote upon a piece of paper the reasons which made him look upon death as a happiness ; and the chief of them was , that it " delivered him from theological ...
... church of the castle , two days after . Some days before he died , he wrote upon a piece of paper the reasons which made him look upon death as a happiness ; and the chief of them was , that it " delivered him from theological ...
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... church history as the chief of the sect of Mele- tians , was convicted of sacrificing to idols , during the Dio- clesian persecution , and imprisoned and degraded by a council held by Peter , bishop of Alexandria . Upon his 1 Harles in ...
... church history as the chief of the sect of Mele- tians , was convicted of sacrificing to idols , during the Dio- clesian persecution , and imprisoned and degraded by a council held by Peter , bishop of Alexandria . Upon his 1 Harles in ...
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