The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 7Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 - Artists |
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... reputation as a warrior and a commander ; and from that period until the peace of Campo Formio , Buonaparte marched from success to success , from victory to victory , in which he was not a little aided by the want of vigour in the ...
... reputation as a warrior and a commander ; and from that period until the peace of Campo Formio , Buonaparte marched from success to success , from victory to victory , in which he was not a little aided by the want of vigour in the ...
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... reputation , the credit of his works , and the attention with which they were always received , we do not wonder that he was sensible of his own value . It would perhaps have displayed a stronger mind to have concealed it . Buffon died ...
... reputation , the credit of his works , and the attention with which they were always received , we do not wonder that he was sensible of his own value . It would perhaps have displayed a stronger mind to have concealed it . Buffon died ...
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... reputation ; the first was a pamphlet , entitled , " A Vindication of Natural Society ; or , a View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every species of artificial Society , " which , for a time , imposed upon the friends ...
... reputation ; the first was a pamphlet , entitled , " A Vindication of Natural Society ; or , a View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every species of artificial Society , " which , for a time , imposed upon the friends ...
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... reputation to a false- hood , which was judicially recorded . The Abbé L'Epée died at Paris , in the year 1790 . His disciples lamented his loss , and his memory will long be honoured by posterity . EUCLID . Pohod by " mer beta harp ...
... reputation to a false- hood , which was judicially recorded . The Abbé L'Epée died at Paris , in the year 1790 . His disciples lamented his loss , and his memory will long be honoured by posterity . EUCLID . Pohod by " mer beta harp ...
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... reputation had pro- cured him a scat at the admiralty board ; from which he was dismissed by Lord North , in 1774 . In that year Mr. Fox lost his father , his mother , his eldest brother , his situation as a head of the admiralty , and ...
... reputation had pro- cured him a scat at the admiralty board ; from which he was dismissed by Lord North , in 1774 . In that year Mr. Fox lost his father , his mother , his eldest brother , his situation as a head of the admiralty , and ...
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