The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... rank of King's Counsel . A few years after , though not without considerable opposition from his cousin , the Earl of Salisbury , and Sir Ed- ward Coke , he was appointed Solicitor - General . His other promotions may be told in a few ...
... rank of King's Counsel . A few years after , though not without considerable opposition from his cousin , the Earl of Salisbury , and Sir Ed- ward Coke , he was appointed Solicitor - General . His other promotions may be told in a few ...
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... rank which Voltaire assigned to Boileau in the Temple du Goût , among the great writers of the age of Louis XIV . has been ratified by posterity : it was fixed indeed during his life - time , and it is a remarkable instance of good ...
... rank which Voltaire assigned to Boileau in the Temple du Goût , among the great writers of the age of Louis XIV . has been ratified by posterity : it was fixed indeed during his life - time , and it is a remarkable instance of good ...
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... rank which nature appears to have as- signed him . He studied for a time the graceful manner of Georgione , whom he imitated and surpassed ; but the desire of signalizing himself , led him to establish a style of his own , in which ...
... rank which nature appears to have as- signed him . He studied for a time the graceful manner of Georgione , whom he imitated and surpassed ; but the desire of signalizing himself , led him to establish a style of his own , in which ...
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... rank , was already considered as the most able and con- spicuous among the enemies of the king . He had con- nected ... ranks and orders . Their political principles were entirely republican . They aspired to a total abolition of the ...
... rank , was already considered as the most able and con- spicuous among the enemies of the king . He had con- nected ... ranks and orders . Their political principles were entirely republican . They aspired to a total abolition of the ...
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... rank of king , which he had contributed , with such seeming zeal , to abolish . But the vigour and energy of the parliament , the success of their arms in Scotland and Ireland , and their naval victories over the Dutch , which gave them ...
... rank of king , which he had contributed , with such seeming zeal , to abolish . But the vigour and energy of the parliament , the success of their arms in Scotland and Ireland , and their naval victories over the Dutch , which gave them ...
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