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The General Biographical Dictionary (Volume 27); Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons ... the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1816 Excerpt: ... with a life of the author prefixed; Among his other works are a volume of " Letters," published at Paris in 1611, for which his style seems best adapted, and his correspondents were some of the first personages of the age. Their contents, as detailing important occurrences, ate interesting, and their turn of expression sometimes elegant. Another of his works was a learned defence of grammar, rhetoric, and logici against one whom he calls Cornificius, which contains a most curious account of the state of these sciences at this period.1 SALISBURY, or SALESBURY (william), a Welsh antiquary, was born of an ancient family in Denbighshire, and studied for some time at Oxford, whence he removed to Thaives-Inn, London. Here he applied to the law, but does not appear to have risen to any eminence, as Wood speaks of him as living in his latter days in the house of a bookseller in St. Paul's church-yard. His principal object appears to have been the cultivation of the Welsh language, and the translation into it of the Bible, &c. It would appear that queen Elizabeth gave him a patent, for seven years, for printing in Welsh the Bible, CommonPrayer, and "Administration of the Sacraments." He compiled "A Dictionary in English and Welsh," Lond. 1547, 4to. "A Little Treatise of the English pronunciation of the Letters." "A plain and familiar introduction" to the same, Lond. 1550, 4to. "Battery of the Pope's Bottereulx, commonly called the High-Altar," ibid. 1550, 8vo.-"The Laws of Howell Dha." "A Welsh Rhetorick," revised, enlarged, &c. by Henry Perry, B. D. The period of his death is uncertain, but he was living in. 1567. SALISBURY. See CECIL. SALLENGRE (albert Henry De), an ingenious and laborious writer, was born at the Hague in 1694-His father was receiver-general of Wa...
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