Identifier: generalbiographyv7pt2aiki (find matches)
Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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NIC ( 39; ) NIC volumes of father Combefis Auctuar, 1648,folio. Of the genuineness of TheStichometry■ttributcd to our author, some critics have en-tertained doubts, and in particular Dr. Pearson,BS appears from the first part of his Vindic.Ignatii. However, the voice of the greaternumber, among whom are Fabricius, Cave,Mill, and Lardner, is in its favour. Of thispiece there are various editions, the mostacur.ite of which is given hy Montfaucon, inhis Bibl. Coislin. It contains a catalogue ofthe books of sacred Scripture, which is of useto shew that the Jewish canon was gsnerallyesteemed sacred by Christians ; and that theother books of the Old Testament, which arenow called Apocryphal, were not of equalauthority, though they were read sometimesin some churches, and often quoted by christianwriters. It also affords evidence, that therenever were any christian writings, esteemed tobe of equal authority with those which arenow received by us as sacred and canonical.The Letter of Niceph

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