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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... extraordinary men that any nation ever pro- duced . He broke through the scholastic obscurity of the age , and shewed mankind the necessity of thinking for themselves , in order to become truly learned . He began with taking a view of ...
... extraordinary men that any nation ever pro- duced . He broke through the scholastic obscurity of the age , and shewed mankind the necessity of thinking for themselves , in order to become truly learned . He began with taking a view of ...
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... extraordinary ; but he obtained no higher preferment during the reign of Elizabeth . That princess , who was proverbially sparing of honours and favours to her ministers and courtiers , probably thought him sufficiently provided for by ...
... extraordinary ; but he obtained no higher preferment during the reign of Elizabeth . That princess , who was proverbially sparing of honours and favours to her ministers and courtiers , probably thought him sufficiently provided for by ...
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... extraordinary merit , he remitted the fine , as well as the other parts of the sentence , conferred on him a large pension of 18001. a - year , and employed every expedient to alleviate the weight of his age and misfortunes . He was ...
... extraordinary merit , he remitted the fine , as well as the other parts of the sentence , conferred on him a large pension of 18001. a - year , and employed every expedient to alleviate the weight of his age and misfortunes . He was ...
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... extraordinary honours that were paid him , when , after having with some difficulty ob- tained the pope's consent , he proceeded to Paris . He was received in his progress , and on his arrival , as a sove- reign would have been , He ...
... extraordinary honours that were paid him , when , after having with some difficulty ob- tained the pope's consent , he proceeded to Paris . He was received in his progress , and on his arrival , as a sove- reign would have been , He ...
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... extraordinary personage , some presage of his future grandeur , will find their experience contradicted , and their discernment of no avail in the character of Cromwell , His first appearance on the great theatre of the world was little ...
... extraordinary personage , some presage of his future grandeur , will find their experience contradicted , and their discernment of no avail in the character of Cromwell , His first appearance on the great theatre of the world was little ...
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