The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... greatest moderation and simplicity . A friend to justice , though his public conduct was one continued violation of it ; devoted to religion , though he perpetually employed it as the instrument of his ambition ; he was engaged in ...
... greatest moderation and simplicity . A friend to justice , though his public conduct was one continued violation of it ; devoted to religion , though he perpetually employed it as the instrument of his ambition ; he was engaged in ...
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... greatest monarch . He maintained dignity without affectation , and supported , before strangers , the high idea which his great exploits and prodigious fortune had impressed them with . He was generous , without pro- fusion , to those ...
... greatest monarch . He maintained dignity without affectation , and supported , before strangers , the high idea which his great exploits and prodigious fortune had impressed them with . He was generous , without pro- fusion , to those ...
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... greatest moralists , not excepting la Rochefoucauld , have ad- vanced only detached speculations , which present no- thing determined in their result . Helvetius alone has examined their causes , and fundamental principles . He has ...
... greatest moralists , not excepting la Rochefoucauld , have ad- vanced only detached speculations , which present no- thing determined in their result . Helvetius alone has examined their causes , and fundamental principles . He has ...
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... greatest ingenuity , rendered ample justice to his prodigious ta- lent . Travellers of the greatest rank and discernment , and even those whose curiosity was simply excited on passing through Zurich , where this singular man , a ...
... greatest ingenuity , rendered ample justice to his prodigious ta- lent . Travellers of the greatest rank and discernment , and even those whose curiosity was simply excited on passing through Zurich , where this singular man , a ...
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... greatest and most interesting that can be con- ceived . " While he discloses much , " says d'Alembert , " he leaves still more to the reflection and judgment of his readers and he might have entitled his book " The Roman History , for ...
... greatest and most interesting that can be con- ceived . " While he discloses much , " says d'Alembert , " he leaves still more to the reflection and judgment of his readers and he might have entitled his book " The Roman History , for ...
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