A NEW AND GENERAL

BIOGRAPHICAL

DICTIONARY;

CONTAINING

AN HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIVES AND WRITINGS

OF THE

Most Eminent Perfons

IN EVERY NATION IN THE WORLD,

PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH AND IRISH,

From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the prefent Period;

WHEREIN

THEIR REMARKABLE ACTIONS AND SUFFERINGS,

THEIR VIRTUES, VICES, PARTS, AND LEARNING,

A NEW EDITION, IN EIGHT VOLUMES.
Corrected, Enlarged, and greatly Improved; with the Addition of
of New Lives, never Published before.

many

Hundreds

PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS;

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