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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... Prince of Learned Men , was a native of Priene , a city of Caria , and flourished about the year 608 before Jesus Christ . Some pirates , in one of their cruizes in the neighbourhood of Messina , carried away several females of the city ...
... Prince of Learned Men , was a native of Priene , a city of Caria , and flourished about the year 608 before Jesus Christ . Some pirates , in one of their cruizes in the neighbourhood of Messina , carried away several females of the city ...
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... prince , he added , " Your majesty is pleased with the portrait , because you admire the original . ” On his return to Rome he hastened to execute an equestrian statue of Curtius in marble , which is now placed at Versailles , and ...
... prince , he added , " Your majesty is pleased with the portrait , because you admire the original . ” On his return to Rome he hastened to execute an equestrian statue of Curtius in marble , which is now placed at Versailles , and ...
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... prince is no less ably pourtrayed than are the features of his face , will be for ever admired . The equestrian statue of Marcus Curtius may be compared with the finest works of antiquity . He was employed on it fifteen years . Al ...
... prince is no less ably pourtrayed than are the features of his face , will be for ever admired . The equestrian statue of Marcus Curtius may be compared with the finest works of antiquity . He was employed on it fifteen years . Al ...
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... prince , who treated him with great liberality . He was granted the exclusive privilege of publishing his own works ; and , with other marks of royal favour , was made choice of by that monarch to write his history , in conjunction with ...
... prince , who treated him with great liberality . He was granted the exclusive privilege of publishing his own works ; and , with other marks of royal favour , was made choice of by that monarch to write his history , in conjunction with ...
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... 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 epigram upon him . It is , on the other ...
... 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 epigram upon him . It is , on the other ...
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