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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 5: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period Though he laboured intenfely all his life, he was´ one of thole learned men, who are not ambitions of the charaéier of author, but content with fiudying for themfelvesand their friends. He applied ´himfelf in his youth to the reading of the Belles Lettres and Hiflory, which he never negleéteds Civil Law, Philofophy, and Morality, wereafterwards his Occupation: and at the latter p¿tf life, hefpent his time chie¿y among Ecclefiaflical Antiquities. As he kept up a correfpondence with all the learned men of Europe, fo when he heard Of any perfon, about to publilh an author, or to compofe a work of his own, he took care to a¿ifl: him with manufcripts, and to furnifh him with memoirs, but without. Fuffering any mention to be made Of his name, though his injunc´tions upon this point were not always obferved. His own works, which were but few, were collefted after his death, by John le Begue his friend, and printed at Paris in the year 1614, in one fmall volume in quarto. They confift Of pieces in Latin and French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 5: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period Though he laboured intenfely all his life, he was´ one of thole learned men, who are not ambitions of the charaéier of author, but content with fiudying for themfelvesand their friends. He applied ´himfelf in his youth to the Buch > Belletristik > Briefe, Tagebücher, Biografien (lit.), Autobiografien, Forgotten Books<

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