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Their remarkable Actions or Sufferings,
their Virtues, Parts, and Learning, are
accurately difplayed; with a Catalogue of their
Literary Productions.
VOL. JX
LONDON:
Printed for T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White,
W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, W. Johnston,
S. Crowder, B. Law, T. Field, T. Durham,
J. Robson, R, Goadby, and E. Baker,
MDCCLXL THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
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ASTOR,LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS
1900. A N
Univerfal, Hiftorical, and Literary
DICTIONARY.
D.
DACIER (Andrew) an eminent French critic and
philologer, was born of proteftant parents at Caftres in Upper Languedoc, upon the 6th of April
1651, and had his education in the college there;
but, when the dire&ion; of it was given, in the year 1664,
to the jefuits alone, his father fent him to the univerfity of
Puyloufens, and afterwards to that of Saumur, that he might
finifh his clailical ftudies under Tanneguy le Fevre, or
Tanaguil Faber. This excellent mailer was fo taken with
mr. Dacier’s uncommon genius and inclination for learning,
that he kept him alone in his houfe, after he had difmifled
the reft of his pupils ; and here mr. Dacier conceived that
affe&ion; for mr. Le Fevre’s ...
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