A Biographical, Historical and Chronological Dictionary: Containing Accurate Accounts of the Lives, Characters, and Actions, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages and All Countries; Including the Revolutions of States, and the Succession of Sovereign PR

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The author has endeavoured to render his work complete, by inserting every interesting name and event likely to be sought for in a eollection of this kind; and although he can not presume that there are not many defects and omissions, yet it will be obvious on comparison, that this work now contains from two to three thousand articles were than are to be found in any similar work in the English, or perhaps in any other language.

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