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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... law , as a profession , -contrary to his natural inclination , which rather led him to apply himself to state affairs . He entered himself of Gray's Inn , in which society he con- tinued to reside , even after his elevation to the ...
... law , as a profession , -contrary to his natural inclination , which rather led him to apply himself to state affairs . He entered himself of Gray's Inn , in which society he con- tinued to reside , even after his elevation to the ...
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... law , considered as a science ; but in the technical and practical part of it , he was surpassed by the more laborious efforts and humbler talents of Sir Edward Coke . He published several tracts upon the sub- ject , among which his ...
... law , considered as a science ; but in the technical and practical part of it , he was surpassed by the more laborious efforts and humbler talents of Sir Edward Coke . He published several tracts upon the sub- ject , among which his ...
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... law , he directed his thoughts to the church , to which he shortly after conceived a dislike . Boileau , equally disgusted ... laws of Poetry , and one of the finest compositions of the French language , —and , in 1674 , he published his ...
... law , he directed his thoughts to the church , to which he shortly after conceived a dislike . Boileau , equally disgusted ... laws of Poetry , and one of the finest compositions of the French language , —and , in 1674 , he published his ...
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... laws which reason and the most enlightened ages have avowed . He fixed , in a great measure , the language of his country , by the purity of his diction , the force and harmony of his style ; and is regarded as the founder of its poetic ...
... laws which reason and the most enlightened ages have avowed . He fixed , in a great measure , the language of his country , by the purity of his diction , the force and harmony of his style ; and is regarded as the founder of its poetic ...
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... law . But so sedentary an employment not suiting his disposition , he soon returned into the country , and continuing his former course of life , spent a great part of his paternal estate . At length he reformed his conduct , and became ...
... law . But so sedentary an employment not suiting his disposition , he soon returned into the country , and continuing his former course of life , spent a great part of his paternal estate . At length he reformed his conduct , and became ...
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