The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, 7. köideVernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 |
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... caused his banishment , offered his service to the general , and conduced greatly to the victory of Salamis . Aristides was afterwards chosen to command the Athenian troops . He van- quished Mardonius , the lieutenant of the Persian mo ...
... caused his banishment , offered his service to the general , and conduced greatly to the victory of Salamis . Aristides was afterwards chosen to command the Athenian troops . He van- quished Mardonius , the lieutenant of the Persian mo ...
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... and satis- fied at length with his efforts , he declaimed it aloud for his amusement , and as it were to recompence him for the trouble it had caused . So many times re- FRANCE . ] BUFFON . .peated , his polished prose BUFFON . [ FRANCE .
... and satis- fied at length with his efforts , he declaimed it aloud for his amusement , and as it were to recompence him for the trouble it had caused . So many times re- FRANCE . ] BUFFON . .peated , his polished prose BUFFON . [ FRANCE .
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... caused her to be sent to Fort L'Eveque . To be released from thence it was re- quired that she should make a public submission : at this humiliation her pride revolted . She then so- licited her apostolical dismissal , which , as it ...
... caused her to be sent to Fort L'Eveque . To be released from thence it was re- quired that she should make a public submission : at this humiliation her pride revolted . She then so- licited her apostolical dismissal , which , as it ...
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... caused him to be poisoned , in the year 54 of J. C. During the first years of his reign , Claudius was a prince without any dreaded character ; but in the latter period he became so deficient in intellect , as to be indifferent to his ...
... caused him to be poisoned , in the year 54 of J. C. During the first years of his reign , Claudius was a prince without any dreaded character ; but in the latter period he became so deficient in intellect , as to be indifferent to his ...
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... caused his companions to suspect that he did not possess much genius , which they conceived , consisted in ease , rapidity , and bold- ness of execution . This slowness of Domenichino they ridiculed , and in derision called him the Ox ...
... caused his companions to suspect that he did not possess much genius , which they conceived , consisted in ease , rapidity , and bold- ness of execution . This slowness of Domenichino they ridiculed , and in derision called him the Ox ...
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