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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... greater firmness of mind , had exposed himself to the loss of character , to reproach , and calamity . He happily escaped the plague which infested the summer of the year 1625 , and with some difficulty , be- ing of a tender ...
... greater firmness of mind , had exposed himself to the loss of character , to reproach , and calamity . He happily escaped the plague which infested the summer of the year 1625 , and with some difficulty , be- ing of a tender ...
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... greater space than we can at present spare . His noble treatise on the Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum , form the chief basis of his reputation . Though inferior in some respects to Galilæo , and , perhaps , even to Kepler ...
... greater space than we can at present spare . His noble treatise on the Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum , form the chief basis of his reputation . Though inferior in some respects to Galilæo , and , perhaps , even to Kepler ...
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... greater by the echo from the mountains on each side , concurs to form one of the most solemn , the most ro- mantic , and the most astonishing scenes I ever beheld . Add to this , the strange views made by the craggs and cliffs ; on the ...
... greater by the echo from the mountains on each side , concurs to form one of the most solemn , the most ro- mantic , and the most astonishing scenes I ever beheld . Add to this , the strange views made by the craggs and cliffs ; on the ...
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... greater impression on me , because I knew the lieutenant - general to be a man of very deep designs ; and he has even ventured to tell me , that it never would be well with England till I were Mr. Montague , and there were never a lord ...
... greater impression on me , because I knew the lieutenant - general to be a man of very deep designs ; and he has even ventured to tell me , that it never would be well with England till I were Mr. Montague , and there were never a lord ...
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... greater hardihood , has asserted that every faculty in man is reduced to a sensibility altogether physical ; but of this assertion he affords no proof . Locke has said that we are born slaves of the objects which surround us . Helvetius ...
... greater hardihood , has asserted that every faculty in man is reduced to a sensibility altogether physical ; but of this assertion he affords no proof . Locke has said that we are born slaves of the objects which surround us . Helvetius ...
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