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 A NEW AND GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY; CONTAINING AN HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL ACCOUNT P F THE LIVES and WRITINGS OF THE Moft Eminent Perfons IN EVERY NATION; PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH AND IRISH; from the Earliefl Accounts of Time to the prefent Period* %V H E R E I N . Their remarkable ACTIONS and SUFFERINGS, Their VIRTUES, PARTS, and LEARNING, ARE ACCURATELY DISPLAYED. With a CATALOGUE of their LITERARY PRODUCTIONS. j * A NEW EDITION, IN TWELVE VOLUMES, GREATLY ENLARGED AMD IMPROVED. VOL, I. LONDON, PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN, T. PAYNE AND SON, J. RIVING- TON AND SONS, W. OWEN, B. WHITE, T. AND W. LOWNDFS, B. LAW, J. ROBSON, J. JOHNSON, G". R^OBIHSON} J. NICHOLS, J. MURRAY, W. GOLDSMITH, G. MCOL, J. MACqyEEN, W. CHAPMAN, T. BOV.'LES, AND E. N MDCCLXXXIV.. -