The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... employed in breaking the fetters of false philosophy , and conducting the lovers of truth to the proper method of cultivating the whole circle of the sciences . Happy for himself and for the nation whom he thus adorned by his genius and ...
... employed in breaking the fetters of false philosophy , and conducting the lovers of truth to the proper method of cultivating the whole circle of the sciences . Happy for himself and for the nation whom he thus adorned by his genius and ...
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... employed every expedient to alleviate the weight of his age and misfortunes . He was also summoned to the Parliament which was held in the first year of King Charles I. He survived his sentence five years , and being released in a ...
... employed every expedient to alleviate the weight of his age and misfortunes . He was also summoned to the Parliament which was held in the first year of King Charles I. He survived his sentence five years , and being released in a ...
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... employed him to decorate the bridge of St. Angelo . His last work was a demi - colossal figure of Christ , which he bequeathed to the Queen Christina of Sweden . He died in 1680 , leaving behind him , as it is said , pro- perty to the ...
... employed him to decorate the bridge of St. Angelo . His last work was a demi - colossal figure of Christ , which he bequeathed to the Queen Christina of Sweden . He died in 1680 , leaving behind him , as it is said , pro- perty to the ...
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... employed on it fifteen years . Al- though he left behind him , as we have stated , considerable property , the Queen Christina , upon learning the amount , exclaimed , " Had he attached himself to my service , I should have felt shame ...
... employed on it fifteen years . Al- though he left behind him , as we have stated , considerable property , the Queen Christina , upon learning the amount , exclaimed , " Had he attached himself to my service , I should have felt shame ...
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... employed . " As a satirist , his admirers pretend that he surpassed Juvenal , and was at times equal to Horace ; but he has been reproached for not sufficiently varying his phrases , either in prose or verse . He has been likewise ...
... employed . " As a satirist , his admirers pretend that he surpassed Juvenal , and was at times equal to Horace ; but he has been reproached for not sufficiently varying his phrases , either in prose or verse . He has been likewise ...
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