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Nepos or Youth's Biographical Mirror for Schools
This second edition announces William Mavor’s Nepos a compact biographical collection of British worthies. It features life notices of Alfred the Great Chaucer Drake Harvey Newton Drake and many others with birth and death dates and notes on notable deaths. Endorsed by reviews praising its utility for youth, moral instruction, and home or school study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Mavor
Hurley
Berkshire
E. of
Mavor
Sim
Manua
Mayor
Alfred the Great
Friar Bacon
John Wickis
Geultics Chaucer
Cardinal Wolfey
Thomas More
Cromwellart of Essex
Bishop Latimer
Sebastian. Cabot
Bieso ‘Fewell
Thomas Gotham
Crighton
Francis Walsingham
Francis Drake
Lord Burleigh
William Shakespeare
Walter Raleigh
Bacon
Andrews
Locke
Holt
Bishop Burnet
William Penny
Addison
Duke of Marlborough
Maac Newton
Robert Walpole
Earl of
Orford
Earl of Stair
Hans Sloane
General Wolfe
Lord Anson
Earl of Hardwicke
John Barnard
George Lord Listerton
Lord Clive
Wiliam Pitt Earl of Chatham
David Garrick
James Cook
William Blackstone
Samuel Johnson
Bishop Lowth
John Howard
Pope
Nepos
Cornelius Nepos
Cartrear Review