The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings; Or, Biographical Review:: Containing a Brief Account of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Men, in Every Age and Country; and Graphic Imitations of the Finest Specimens of the Arts; Ancient and Modern, with Remarks, Critical and Explanatory ....Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ... at the Union Printing-Office, 1812 |
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... Charles Borromeo curing the Sick of the Plague Van Oost .. Rebecca at the Well · - Poussin .. Astyages ordering the Death of Cyrus - Perrin . - Ditto . The Virgin and Infant Jesus - - Raphael . Alcibiades surprised by Socrates Tobit and ...
... Charles Borromeo curing the Sick of the Plague Van Oost .. Rebecca at the Well · - Poussin .. Astyages ordering the Death of Cyrus - Perrin . - Ditto . The Virgin and Infant Jesus - - Raphael . Alcibiades surprised by Socrates Tobit and ...
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... and employed every expedient to alleviate the weight of his age and misfortunes . He was also summoned to the Parliament which was held in the first year of King Charles I. He survived his sentence five years , and being released.
... and employed every expedient to alleviate the weight of his age and misfortunes . He was also summoned to the Parliament which was held in the first year of King Charles I. He survived his sentence five years , and being released.
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... Charles I. he was appointed one of the committee of reli- gion ; and in 1637 , upon the severities inflicted on the Puritan party , of which he professed himself , by arch- bishop Laud , he resolved , with several others , to remove ...
... Charles I. he was appointed one of the committee of reli- gion ; and in 1637 , upon the severities inflicted on the Puritan party , of which he professed himself , by arch- bishop Laud , he resolved , with several others , to remove ...
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... Charles of life , and prepared the way for his own usurped authority . If it were possible that a crime of so deep a dye could admit of the slightest extenuation , it must be confessed that the subsequent exploits of Cromwell were ...
... Charles of life , and prepared the way for his own usurped authority . If it were possible that a crime of so deep a dye could admit of the slightest extenuation , it must be confessed that the subsequent exploits of Cromwell were ...
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... Charles , he addressed a petition to that prince , requesting , that as his royal father had granted him a pension of one hundred marks , he would make them pounds ; and when the King sent him that sum , he is said to have composed an ...
... Charles , he addressed a petition to that prince , requesting , that as his royal father had granted him a pension of one hundred marks , he would make them pounds ; and when the King sent him that sum , he is said to have composed an ...
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