The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... success , to procure him the office of Solicitor - Gene- ral , and in order to comfort him under the disappoint- ment , had conferred on him a present of land to the value of 18001. But when his munificent patron was sum- moned before ...
... success , to procure him the office of Solicitor - Gene- ral , and in order to comfort him under the disappoint- ment , had conferred on him a present of land to the value of 18001. But when his munificent patron was sum- moned before ...
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... success , and made the same use of his talents as of his fortune ; that is to say , by directing it to the assistance of the necessitous . He died at an advanced age , in the midst of his noble occupations . Pleading one day the cause ...
... success , and made the same use of his talents as of his fortune ; that is to say , by directing it to the assistance of the necessitous . He died at an advanced age , in the midst of his noble occupations . Pleading one day the cause ...
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... success ; but exhibited no qualities that could indicate his future celebrity . " Colin , " his father used to say , " is a good lad , who is not over- burthened with wit , and will speak no ill of Boileau Molière Montesquieu.
... success ; but exhibited no qualities that could indicate his future celebrity . " Colin , " his father used to say , " is a good lad , who is not over- burthened with wit , and will speak no ill of Boileau Molière Montesquieu.
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... success . He had even obtained a pro- fessor's chair , when his attainments , his merit , and his wisdom , procured him the offer of several ecclesiastical dignities . He was at first a monk at Cologne , afterwards at Rheims ; and was ...
... success . He had even obtained a pro- fessor's chair , when his attainments , his merit , and his wisdom , procured him the offer of several ecclesiastical dignities . He was at first a monk at Cologne , afterwards at Rheims ; and was ...
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... success and of his genius . Those who imagine they can trace , in every action of an extraordinary personage , some presage of his future grandeur , will find their experience contradicted , and ENGLAND . ] CROMWELL . their discernment ...
... success and of his genius . Those who imagine they can trace , in every action of an extraordinary personage , some presage of his future grandeur , will find their experience contradicted , and ENGLAND . ] CROMWELL . their discernment ...
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