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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... 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 constitution , passed the ...
... 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 constitution , passed the ...
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... mind , that he has been known to observe , if he had the offer of coming a second time into existence , upon the painful conditions of his childhood , he would much rather not be born . gardless , however , of the neglect he experienced ...
... mind , that he has been known to observe , if he had the offer of coming a second time into existence , upon the painful conditions of his childhood , he would much rather not be born . gardless , however , of the neglect he experienced ...
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... mind without frightening it . I am well persuaded , St. Bruno was a man of no common genius , to choose such a situ- ation for his retirement ; and perhaps should have been a disciple of his , had I been born in his time . " Painted by ...
... mind without frightening it . I am well persuaded , St. Bruno was a man of no common genius , to choose such a situ- ation for his retirement ; and perhaps should have been a disciple of his , had I been born in his time . " Painted by ...
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... mind became enlarged by a more liberal commerce with mankind , his natural sagacity discovered to him how easily he might govern others by the same enthusiasm by which he himself had been misled ; and if he continued to use the same ...
... mind became enlarged by a more liberal commerce with mankind , his natural sagacity discovered to him how easily he might govern others by the same enthusiasm by which he himself had been misled ; and if he continued to use the same ...
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... minds of the people , the remembrance of an act then unparalleled in the annals of mankind , and of which only one example could be produced in the history of ancient or modern Europe , in the person of Agis , of Lacedæmon , 300 years ...
... minds of the people , the remembrance of an act then unparalleled in the annals of mankind , and of which only one example could be produced in the history of ancient or modern Europe , in the person of Agis , of Lacedæmon , 300 years ...
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