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Excerpt from General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 2 of 3I'abris (n rcnous) an ingenious Italian mechanician, who was a priest of the Oratory. He was born at Chioggia in 1739, and was made counsellor to the bishop of that city, where he died, August 13th, 1801. He first employed himself, in conjunction with his brother, the abbé h'nsncrs fabrib, in ana lysing and arranging the marine productions of the Adriatic. Afterwards, studying mathe mati...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 2 of 3Gandy (james) an able artist, was born in 1619, and wasa pupil of Vandyck. His works possess considerable merit, and some of his portraits are very little inferior to Van dyck, either in dignity, expression, or colour ing. He is however almost unknown, being taken to Ireland by the old duke of Ormond, and retained in his service, the then unsettled state of that country prevented his t...

Excerpt from A General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 3 of 3Pantagruel. In 1535 he was taken under the protection of cardinal John du Bellay, who te ceived him into his house as physician, libra ian, and steward. The cardinal being nomi mated ambassador to Rome the next year, was accompanied by Rabelais, who so much amu sed the papal court with his wit and bufi'oonery, that he obtained a plenary absolution for the crime of apostacy. In 1537 he ...

Excerpt from A General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 3 of 3Pantagruel. In 1535 he was taken under the protection of cardinal John du Bellay, who te ceived him into his house as physician, libra ian, and steward. The cardinal being nomi mated ambassador to Rome the next year, was accompanied by Rabelais, who so much amu sed the papal court with his wit and bufi'oonery, that he obtained a plenary absolution for the crime of apostacy. In 1537 he ...

Excerpt from A general Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 3 of 3Bi gagotski (putters) second of the name, prince of Transylvania, was born at the castle of Bm'shi in Hungary.in 1676. On the death of his father, he was carefull watched bythehouse ofaustria, and tobreak correspondence with his mother, but sealousfor theindependence ofhis country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at...