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A general dictionary, historical and critical: in which a new and accurate translation of that of the celebrated Mr. Bayle, with the corrections and observations printed in the late edition at Paris, is included: and interspersed with several thousand lives never before published. The whole containing the history of the most illustrious persons of all ages and nations particularly those of Great Britain and Ireland, distinguised by their rank, actions, learning and other accomplishments. With reflections on such passages of Bayle, as seem to favor scepticism and the Manichee system. / By the Reverend Mr. John Peter Bernard, F. R. S. The Reverend Mr. Thomas Birch ... Mr. John Lockman; and other hands.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Forrest Collection Folio CT95 .B32 1734 v.1, 3-10
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Languet, Hubert, 1518-1581.
- Languet, Hubert.
- Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden, 1594-1632.
- Gustav.
- Moréri, Louis, 1643-1680. Grand dictionnaire historique.
- Moréri, Louis.
- Biography--Dictionaries.
- Biography.
- History--Dictionaries.
- History.
- East Asia--History.
- East Asia.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 10 volumes ; 38 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London, Printed by J. Bettenham, [publisher not identified], 1734-41.
- Contents:
- Vol. X contains: A dissertation concerning the book of Stephanus Junius Brutus, printed in the year one thousand, five hundred, and seventy nine.
- A critique on Bayle's dissertation on the book of Stephanus Junius Brutus.
- A dissertation concerning defamatory libels...
- A dissertation concerning the hippomanes.
- A dissertation concerning the space of time called day.
- A dissertation printed and prefixed to some essays or fragments of this work, in 1692, and intitled, a Proposal for a critical dictionary.
- An illustration of certain particulars interspersed in this dictionary...I. To the encomiums bestowed on persons, who denied either the providence or existence of the deity. II. To the objections of the Manichees.
- (Con't) III. To the objections of the skeptics. IV. To obscene touches.
- An historical discourse on the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden. - Reflections on a pamphlet intitled, The judgement to the public, and particularly of Abbé Renaudot, on Mr. Bayle's critical dictionary.
- Critiical remarks [by A. de Tricaud and A. Gaudin] on the new edition of Moreri's historical dictionary, published in 1704. With a preface and observations by Mr. Bayle, for the use of the new editors of Moreri's dictionary. Translated from the third edition of the French. To which are added New observations on these critical remarks, and on the edition of Moreri published in 1725.
- Notes:
- A different translation from that published 1740 (4 v.) and, second edition, 1734-38 (5 v.)
- Article relating to Oriental history, by George Sale, gent., in vol.I-IV.
- Local Notes:
- Furness 46, F presented to the Penn Libraries by the estate of Edwing Forrest. Autographs of D. Edwards (dated 1744) and William Leggett.
- Forrest Folio CT95 .B32 1734 has bookplate of Alexander Stedman.
- OCLC:
- 1820229
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