The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... Charles Borromeo curing the Sick of the Plague Van Oost . Rebecca at the Well Astyages ordering the Death of Cyrus Alcibiades surprised by Socrates Poussin . Perrin . Ditto . The Virgin and Infant Jesus Raphael . Tobit and his Family ...
... Charles Borromeo curing the Sick of the Plague Van Oost . Rebecca at the Well Astyages ordering the Death of Cyrus Alcibiades surprised by Socrates Poussin . Perrin . Ditto . The Virgin and Infant Jesus Raphael . Tobit and his Family ...
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... Charles I. He survived his sentence five years , and being released in a little time from the Tower , where he was at first imprisoned , his genius , yet unbroken , supported itself amidst involved circumstances , and under a continual ...
... Charles I. He survived his sentence five years , and being released in a little time from the Tower , where he was at first imprisoned , his genius , yet unbroken , supported itself amidst involved circumstances , and under a continual ...
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... Charles I. he was appointed one of the committee of reli- gion ; and in 1637 , upon the severities inflicted on the Puritan party , of which he professed himself , by arch- bishop Laud , he resolved , with several others , to remove ...
... Charles I. he was appointed one of the committee of reli- gion ; and in 1637 , upon the severities inflicted on the Puritan party , of which he professed himself , by arch- bishop Laud , he resolved , with several others , to remove ...
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... window of the palace , beheld the fatal stroke which de- prived the unfortunate Charles of life , and prepared the way for his own usurped authority . 4 ENGLAND . ] CROMWELL . If it were possible that CROMWELL . [ ENGLAND .
... window of the palace , beheld the fatal stroke which de- prived the unfortunate Charles of life , and prepared the way for his own usurped authority . 4 ENGLAND . ] CROMWELL . If it were possible that CROMWELL . [ ENGLAND .
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... Charles II . had been received as king by the cove- nanters , who refused obedience to the commonwealth of England , encountered the Scottish army at Dunbar , and , in a situation where every thing appeared to announce his own ...
... Charles II . had been received as king by the cove- nanters , who refused obedience to the commonwealth of England , encountered the Scottish army at Dunbar , and , in a situation where every thing appeared to announce his own ...
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