The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 7Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 - Artists |
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... writer , Buffon is admirable . Historian , orator , painter , and poet , he has embraced every style , and merited , as observed by Vic . d'Azyr , the palm of elo- quence . He employs , as appears necessary , two dif- ferent modes of ...
... writer , Buffon is admirable . Historian , orator , painter , and poet , he has embraced every style , and merited , as observed by Vic . d'Azyr , the palm of elo- quence . He employs , as appears necessary , two dif- ferent modes of ...
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... writers of singular merit have attained the various beauties of the style of Buffon . But he did more ; he revealed in 1749 the secret of his excellence , in a dis- course before the French academy . There we find in a few pages all ...
... writers of singular merit have attained the various beauties of the style of Buffon . But he did more ; he revealed in 1749 the secret of his excellence , in a dis- course before the French academy . There we find in a few pages all ...
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... writer and a statesman , was born at Dub- lin , in 1730. His father was a respectable attorney and a protestant . He received his education from Abraham Shackleton , a quaker , at Ballytore , near Carlow . In 1746 he entered as a ...
... writer and a statesman , was born at Dub- lin , in 1730. His father was a respectable attorney and a protestant . He received his education from Abraham Shackleton , a quaker , at Ballytore , near Carlow . In 1746 he entered as a ...
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... writer by his " Letters to his Son , " the style of which is admirable . In these letters , which were really ad- dressed to a natural son , he has been reproached , and with some reason , for insisting infinitely more on the advantages ...
... writer by his " Letters to his Son , " the style of which is admirable . In these letters , which were really ad- dressed to a natural son , he has been reproached , and with some reason , for insisting infinitely more on the advantages ...
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... writers , whether the last two books were written by him ; they have been attributed to Hypsicles , another geometrician of Alexandria . These Elements contain a series of propositions , which are con- sidered the basis and foundation ...
... writers , whether the last two books were written by him ; they have been attributed to Hypsicles , another geometrician of Alexandria . These Elements contain a series of propositions , which are con- sidered the basis and foundation ...
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