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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... As a lawyer , his reputation has not kept pace with his fame as a philosopher ; his genius , indeed , as in every thing else , enabled him to explore and comprehend the principles of law , considered as a science ; but.
... As a lawyer , his reputation has not kept pace with his fame as a philosopher ; his genius , indeed , as in every thing else , enabled him to explore and comprehend the principles of law , considered as a science ; but.
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... reputation . Though inferior in some respects to Galilæo , and , perhaps , even to Kepler , he surpassed them both in the extent of his researches , and the boldness of his discoveries . His Latinity is remarkable , rather for the ...
... reputation . Though inferior in some respects to Galilæo , and , perhaps , even to Kepler , he surpassed them both in the extent of his researches , and the boldness of his discoveries . His Latinity is remarkable , rather for the ...
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... reputation which succeeding generations have not been able to decrease . Nicholas Boileau - Despréaux was born at Crosne , near Paris , in 1636. He was the eleventh son of Giles Boileau , register of the high court of Parliament . His ...
... reputation which succeeding generations have not been able to decrease . Nicholas Boileau - Despréaux was born at Crosne , near Paris , in 1636. He was the eleventh son of Giles Boileau , register of the high court of Parliament . His ...
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... reputation , and made him known at Court . Invited thither by Louis XIV . he had the honour to recite several cantos of his poem to that enlightened prince , who treated him with great liberality . He was granted the exclusive privilege ...
... reputation , and made him known at Court . Invited thither by Louis XIV . he had the honour to recite several cantos of his poem to that enlightened prince , who treated him with great liberality . He was granted the exclusive privilege ...
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... reputation became principally extended by the Death of Abel , which met with numerous admirers ; the mind being greatly impressed by the union of religious majesty and pastoral simplicity . In the poem of Evander , Gessner proves ...
... reputation became principally extended by the Death of Abel , which met with numerous admirers ; the mind being greatly impressed by the union of religious majesty and pastoral simplicity . In the poem of Evander , Gessner proves ...
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