The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... times he was considered the object of a particular worship . Among the received traditions on the birth of Love , Le Sueur has chosen that which offered a pleasing com- position , which he has delineated with as much dignity.
... times he was considered the object of a particular worship . Among the received traditions on the birth of Love , Le Sueur has chosen that which offered a pleasing com- position , which he has delineated with as much dignity.
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... objects of human knowledge ; he divided these objects into classes ; he examined what was already known in regard to each of them , and he drew up an immense catalogue of what yet remained to be discovered . He even went further ; he ...
... objects of human knowledge ; he divided these objects into classes ; he examined what was already known in regard to each of them , and he drew up an immense catalogue of what yet remained to be discovered . He even went further ; he ...
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... object of these few pages rather to re- view the character of this extraordinary man , than to give a chronological list of his actions . We need therefore only add , that his moral character was perhaps not so ex- ceptionable as it has ...
... object of these few pages rather to re- view the character of this extraordinary man , than to give a chronological list of his actions . We need therefore only add , that his moral character was perhaps not so ex- ceptionable as it has ...
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... objects in general , and his colour- ing , demand peculiar praise . But it was in the delinea- tion of pathetic , tender , and devout subjects , that he particularly excelled , and claims precedence almost over every other painter . It ...
... objects in general , and his colour- ing , demand peculiar praise . But it was in the delinea- tion of pathetic , tender , and devout subjects , that he particularly excelled , and claims precedence almost over every other painter . It ...
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... objects which surround us . Helvetius has insisted that all are by nature the same , and that it is by education alone that men are distinguished . Thus the suggestion of Locke is magnified by Helvetius into a posi- tive axiom ...
... objects which surround us . Helvetius has insisted that all are by nature the same , and that it is by education alone that men are distinguished . Thus the suggestion of Locke is magnified by Helvetius into a posi- tive axiom ...
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