The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... Character of Richard the Third St. John preaching in the Wilderness The Death of Phocion - Ditto . · Hue . Hogarth . - Carlo Maratti . Odevaere . St. Charles Borromeo curing the Sick of the Plague Van Oost . Rebecca at the Well Astyages ...
... Character of Richard the Third St. John preaching in the Wilderness The Death of Phocion - Ditto . · Hue . Hogarth . - Carlo Maratti . Odevaere . St. Charles Borromeo curing the Sick of the Plague Van Oost . Rebecca at the Well Astyages ...
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... character now engage our attention . England , at a distance of three centuries , produced two celebrated genius ' of this name . Roger Bacon , a poor friar of the thirteenth century , made the most asto- nishing discoveries in physics ...
... character now engage our attention . England , at a distance of three centuries , produced two celebrated genius ' of this name . Roger Bacon , a poor friar of the thirteenth century , made the most asto- nishing discoveries in physics ...
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... character , in other respects so perfect , had not been sul- lied by ambition and avarice ! This great man was born in York Place , in the Strand , on the 22d of January , 1560. He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon , Lord Keeper of the ...
... character , in other respects so perfect , had not been sul- lied by ambition and avarice ! This great man was born in York Place , in the Strand , on the 22d of January , 1560. He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon , Lord Keeper of the ...
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... character rather than humanity , gave to the whole trans- action the most favourable turn for Essex : and , in par- ticular , pointed out , in claborate expressions , the du- tiful submission which that nobleman discovered in the ...
... character rather than humanity , gave to the whole trans- action the most favourable turn for Essex : and , in par- ticular , pointed out , in claborate expressions , the du- tiful submission which that nobleman discovered in the ...
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... character of a man , by whose genius and writings it is so much ex- alted in the eye of Europe ; whose faults , as a magistrate , are for ever lost in the brilliant and unperishing fame of the philosopher . He himself lived long enough ...
... character of a man , by whose genius and writings it is so much ex- alted in the eye of Europe ; whose faults , as a magistrate , are for ever lost in the brilliant and unperishing fame of the philosopher . He himself lived long enough ...
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