The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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Page 11
... Death is aiming at her . The lower part of the monument , on which the two portrait figures stand , is shaped like a tomb , out of the opening door of which Death , as a half - veiled skeleton , is bursting forth . Wonderful patience ...
... Death is aiming at her . The lower part of the monument , on which the two portrait figures stand , is shaped like a tomb , out of the opening door of which Death , as a half - veiled skeleton , is bursting forth . Wonderful patience ...
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... death in 1688. This peaceful state of the country gave the voivode leisure to promote its internal culture ; and in the year of his death he had the satisfaction of seeing the first part of a Walachian Bible issue from the first ...
... death in 1688. This peaceful state of the country gave the voivode leisure to promote its internal culture ; and in the year of his death he had the satisfaction of seeing the first part of a Walachian Bible issue from the first ...
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... death ; and it did so . During his life his personal peculiarities and the fact that his opinions were nearly as obnoxious to the one party as to the other worked against him , but it was not so after his death . The men of the ...
... death ; and it did so . During his life his personal peculiarities and the fact that his opinions were nearly as obnoxious to the one party as to the other worked against him , but it was not so after his death . The men of the ...
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... death in 1867 ; and one of his paintings has recently received the high distinction of being transferred from the Luxembourg Palace to the Louvre , an honour which is but rarely conferred . It is not , however , one of the best ...
... death in 1867 ; and one of his paintings has recently received the high distinction of being transferred from the Luxembourg Palace to the Louvre , an honour which is but rarely conferred . It is not , however , one of the best ...
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... death in 1692 ( by which time he had attained to the dignity of being a serjeant at law ) had amassed sufficient property to leave to his son an income of £ 300 a year . Nicholas Rowe passed some time in a private school at Highgate ...
... death in 1692 ( by which time he had attained to the dignity of being a serjeant at law ) had amassed sufficient property to leave to his son an income of £ 300 a year . Nicholas Rowe passed some time in a private school at Highgate ...
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