The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 4G. Berger, 1868 - Anecdotes |
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Page 174
... of his religious subjects were equally objects of his tenderness and love . Mr. Cobbin , in his " French Preacher , " relates , that his majesty happening one day to pass in his carriage through a place near one 174 PERCY ANECDOTES .
... of his religious subjects were equally objects of his tenderness and love . Mr. Cobbin , in his " French Preacher , " relates , that his majesty happening one day to pass in his carriage through a place near one 174 PERCY ANECDOTES .
Page 89
... French painter , was one day praising to him the excellence of one of his pictures , he replied , " Ah ! Monsieur , je ne fais que des ebauches , des ebauches . " Alas ! sir , I can only make sketches , sketches . HAVOC OF WAR . A few ...
... French painter , was one day praising to him the excellence of one of his pictures , he replied , " Ah ! Monsieur , je ne fais que des ebauches , des ebauches . " Alas ! sir , I can only make sketches , sketches . HAVOC OF WAR . A few ...
Page 124
... French painter , David , that he attended the execution of his friends , Danton and Camille Desmoulins , as a spectacle connected with his improvement in the art of painting ; and that at the time of the massacre of the prisoners at La ...
... French painter , David , that he attended the execution of his friends , Danton and Camille Desmoulins , as a spectacle connected with his improvement in the art of painting ; and that at the time of the massacre of the prisoners at La ...
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