The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 7Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 - Artists |
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... period of his administration should be denominated the golden age . The year of the death of this great man is uncertain . According to the concurrent testimony of historians , he died in indigence ; it is even pretended that the ...
... period of his administration should be denominated the golden age . The year of the death of this great man is uncertain . According to the concurrent testimony of historians , he died in indigence ; it is even pretended that the ...
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... period until the peace of Campo Formio , Buonaparte marched from success to success , from victory to victory , in which he was not a little aided by the want of vigour in the Austrian councils , and the incapacity of their generals in ...
... period until the peace of Campo Formio , Buonaparte marched from success to success , from victory to victory , in which he was not a little aided by the want of vigour in the Austrian councils , and the incapacity of their generals in ...
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... period his travels and his youth ended . The first literary labours of Buffon , which he published , were translations of some English works . Hales's Vegetable Statics in 1735 , and of Newton's Fluxions , in 1740. These he enriched ...
... period his travels and his youth ended . The first literary labours of Buffon , which he published , were translations of some English works . Hales's Vegetable Statics in 1735 , and of Newton's Fluxions , in 1740. These he enriched ...
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... period he became so deficient in intellect , as to be indifferent to his dignity and his weaknesses , his duty and his rights . If his wife felt disposed to avenge the scorn of a lover , she found him ever ready to obey her commands ...
... period he became so deficient in intellect , as to be indifferent to his dignity and his weaknesses , his duty and his rights . If his wife felt disposed to avenge the scorn of a lover , she found him ever ready to obey her commands ...
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... period , and fixed the atten- tion of all parties . In truth , the war of which the independence of America was the object ; the long - pending trial of Hastings , the governor of India ; the French revolu- tion , and the great struggle ...
... period , and fixed the atten- tion of all parties . In truth , the war of which the independence of America was the object ; the long - pending trial of Hastings , the governor of India ; the French revolu- tion , and the great struggle ...
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