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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... remained to be discovered . He even went further ; he shewed the necessity of experimental physics , and of reasoning experimentally on moral subjects . If he did not greatly enlarge the bounds of any particular science himself he was ...
... remained to be discovered . He even went further ; he shewed the necessity of experimental physics , and of reasoning experimentally on moral subjects . If he did not greatly enlarge the bounds of any particular science himself he was ...
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... remained , he reclined his head upon the bosom of one of his grand - children , who accompanied him , and expired . His countrymen , in testi- mony of his worth , raised a temple to his memory . Painted by Padouan BERNINI . GIOVANNI ...
... remained , he reclined his head upon the bosom of one of his grand - children , who accompanied him , and expired . His countrymen , in testi- mony of his worth , raised a temple to his memory . Painted by Padouan BERNINI . GIOVANNI ...
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... remained eight months at the court of France ; but , after having received some considerable presents , and a pension for himself and his son , his design not being adopted , he left to Perrault the glory of contributing to the ...
... remained eight months at the court of France ; but , after having received some considerable presents , and a pension for himself and his son , his design not being adopted , he left to Perrault the glory of contributing to the ...
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... remained to confine the wild projects of zeal and ambition , and every successive revolution became a precedent for that which followed it . The army mutinied ; the generals , particularly Cromwell , secretly fomented those disorders ...
... remained to confine the wild projects of zeal and ambition , and every successive revolution became a precedent for that which followed it . The army mutinied ; the generals , particularly Cromwell , secretly fomented those disorders ...
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... remained covered before his visitors , however elevated they might be in rank , and was often heard to say , that " he would not exchange his pencil for a cardinal's cap . " In society , however , he was cautious and modest ; which ...
... remained covered before his visitors , however elevated they might be in rank , and was often heard to say , that " he would not exchange his pencil for a cardinal's cap . " In society , however , he was cautious and modest ; which ...
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