The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... enemy beyond Van and Teflys , and took Bagdat and Bassorah . Armenia was ravaged , and 30,000 families transported into Mazenderan , a country that , until that period , had been a desert . In depopulating Armenia , from whence he drew ...
... enemy beyond Van and Teflys , and took Bagdat and Bassorah . Armenia was ravaged , and 30,000 families transported into Mazenderan , a country that , until that period , had been a desert . In depopulating Armenia , from whence he drew ...
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... enemies , and conceived even the project of erecting a temple to Jesus Christ . If Adrian may be reasonably reproached for his cru- elty towards the first characters of the empire — his ex- cessive superstition - his passion for ...
... enemies , and conceived even the project of erecting a temple to Jesus Christ . If Adrian may be reasonably reproached for his cru- elty towards the first characters of the empire — his ex- cessive superstition - his passion for ...
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... enemies of Anne soon perceived the fatal change , and they hastened to widen the breach , when , from the King's indifference , they found they incurred no danger by interposing in such de- licate concerns . She had been delivered of a ...
... enemies of Anne soon perceived the fatal change , and they hastened to widen the breach , when , from the King's indifference , they found they incurred no danger by interposing in such de- licate concerns . She had been delivered of a ...
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... enemy of Mignard , though he indulged towards him the most intolerable rancour . At length a lingering illness compelled Le Brun to retire from court to his manufactory at the Gobelins , of which he was the director , and where he died ...
... enemy of Mignard , though he indulged towards him the most intolerable rancour . At length a lingering illness compelled Le Brun to retire from court to his manufactory at the Gobelins , of which he was the director , and where he died ...
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... enemy to ostentation , enthusiastically at- tached to his art ; and combined , with all these qualities , a sprightly fancy , and an informed mind . His reply to Josepin is well known ; and meeting one day his brother Agostino , in a ...
... enemy to ostentation , enthusiastically at- tached to his art ; and combined , with all these qualities , a sprightly fancy , and an informed mind . His reply to Josepin is well known ; and meeting one day his brother Agostino , in a ...
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