The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 7Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 - Artists |
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... object of this expedition was the conquest of the country , and the consequent hope of destroying the power of Great Britain in India . On the 19th of May , 1798 , the fleet sailed from Toulon , and on the first of July , Buonaparte ...
... object of this expedition was the conquest of the country , and the consequent hope of destroying the power of Great Britain in India . On the 19th of May , 1798 , the fleet sailed from Toulon , and on the first of July , Buonaparte ...
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... object . War was now carried on by the powers at enmity with France with redoubled vigour ; and Buonaparte resolved to effect that in the field which he could not accomplish in the cabinet . He immediately put himself at the head of his ...
... object . War was now carried on by the powers at enmity with France with redoubled vigour ; and Buonaparte resolved to effect that in the field which he could not accomplish in the cabinet . He immediately put himself at the head of his ...
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... object of which he is speaking . But we perceive without difficulty that it is elevated subjects he de- lights to write upon , and which command the extent of his powers . In those pictures where the imagination reposes upon any ...
... object of which he is speaking . But we perceive without difficulty that it is elevated subjects he de- lights to write upon , and which command the extent of his powers . In those pictures where the imagination reposes upon any ...
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... object he proposed to himself , his long and absolute devotion to the most noble enterprise . He lived eight months in the year in his retreat at Montbar : at break of day he repaired to an insulated tower , in which no one presumed to ...
... object he proposed to himself , his long and absolute devotion to the most noble enterprise . He lived eight months in the year in his retreat at Montbar : at break of day he repaired to an insulated tower , in which no one presumed to ...
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... objects of consolation under her disgrace ; but she lost almost at the same time her protector and her fortune . The Margrave of Anspach then invited her into his do- minions , from whence she was afterwards dismissed . On her return to ...
... objects of consolation under her disgrace ; but she lost almost at the same time her protector and her fortune . The Margrave of Anspach then invited her into his do- minions , from whence she was afterwards dismissed . On her return to ...
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