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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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n parliament, as-sembled by Richard Cromwell, induced him toretire into the country. After the dissolutionof that parliament he returned to London, andpreached as before, till the restoration ofCharles II. That event obliged him to breakup his public meetings, but he continued pri-vate assemblies with a few friends. Being atone of these in June, 1662, he and his friendswere apprehended, and committed to prison ;and, upon process of common law, he wajfined a hundred pounds, and ordered to lie inprison till it was paid. Here the close con-finement, and foul air, brought on him a dis-temper, of which he died, September 22,1662,in the forty-seventh year of his age; a martyrto that religious intolerance which had perse-cuted him during the greatest part of his life *His private character, like that of most of thosewhose zeal has led them to suffer for particularopinions, was exemplary. He was ferventlypious, temperate, benevolent, and strictly mo-ral. His learning was considerable, and hil
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B I G ( 163 ) B 1 G powers of argumentation well calculated forgaining proselytk;s. He did not agree in allpoints with Socinus and the foreign unitarians,and therefore his followers were for a linie call-ed Biddelliaiis; but as he was not solicitous toestablish among them a perfect conformity ofsentiments, or to form a peculiar sect, tlie namedid not subsist after his death. Biogr. Brit.Tou/mi/is Mem. of Socinus.—A. Govert BidlooBIDLOO, Godfrey, a physician and ana-tomist, was born at Amsterdam in 1649. Aftergraduating in physic, he was made professor ofanatomy at the Hague in 168S. Thence he wasremoved to the anatomical and chirurgieal chairat Leyden in 1694. William III. king of Eng-land created him his first physician, and expiredin his arms in 1702. Bidloo afterwards return-ed to his professorship at Leyden, where hedied in 1713. His name is principally known from his greatwork Anatomia corporis humani, with 105fine engravings, from drawings by Laircsse. Itwas published at Amsterdam in 1681;

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