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  • ...which was a list drawn up of the ten best Attic (Athenian) orators.<ref>''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', s.v. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com. ...od, Hermes, as a rebellious gesture against the Sicilian expedition.<ref>''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', s.v. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com.
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  • ...der (bap. 1732, d. 1794),”] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004), accessed October 10, 2013. All biographical inform ...ent of the Law, and a Bachelor of Physic. He was bred at the University of Oxford; where having taken no less than three degrees, he looks down on many learn
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  • ...raphy'', accessed October 7, 2013]</ref> was master of Magdalen College at Oxford University from 1549 to 1568.<ref>DeWitt T. Starnes, "Thomas Cooper's ''The
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  • ...iew/article/30245 Yorke, Philip, first earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764)]" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 7, 2013.</ref> Regar
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  • ...1732)]," rev. S. J. Skedd in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 17, 2013.</ref>
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  • ...1554–1600)],” in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> at a time when t
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  • ...Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> He likely moved to Thrace in 545 BCE with ot ...''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).]</ref> Anacreon used various techniques in his wri
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  • ...eorge (bap. 1721, d. 1796)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> He intended his w
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  • ...Sir William Blackstone was elected to the Vinerian Chair of English Law at Oxford University, the first law professorship in the English-speaking world. Amer
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  • ...roxy.wm.edu/view/article/29564 Williams, William Peere (1664/5–1736)]" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 7, 2013. Subsequent
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  • ...496 St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 10, 2013.</ref>
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  • ...ege of William & Mary|William and Mary]], [[wikipedia:University of Oxford|Oxford]], and the [[wikipedia:Inner Temple|Inner Temple]]. His appearance was extr ...sup>2</sup> whose really dull lectures at [[wikipedia:University of Oxford|Oxford]] on the same materials were largely unsuccessful.
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  • ...y'', accessed February 21, 2014.</ref> He matriculated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1687 and entered the Middle Temple in 1692.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1698 he w
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  • ...sms.") Francis Bacon, ''Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning'' (Oxford: Printed by Leon. Lichfield for Rob. Young & Ed. Forrest, 1640), lib. VIII,
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  • ...aron Raymond (1673–1733)]", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 6, 2014.</ref><br />
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  • ...inkerton, John (1758-1826)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed March 27, 2015.</ref>
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  • ...ntemporary authors have written about his life.<ref>"Lucrē'tius" in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.''</ref> ...ant to the poet inspiration and to Rome peace."<ref>"Lucrē'tius" in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.''</ref>
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  • ...Peterson, ''Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970).</ref>
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  • ...''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)</ref> At some later point, Virgil became part of th ...technical perfection of his verse” and imagery.<ref>"Virgil” in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature''.</ref>
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  • ...om/view/article/64033 Bacon, Matthew (b. c.1700, d. in or before 1757)]" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed June 27, 2013.</ref> Bacon is
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