The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... courts , With firm but pliant virtue , forward still To urge his course - him for the studious shade Kind nature formed , deep , comprehensive , clear , Exact and elegant ; in one rich soul , Plato , the Stagyrite , and Tully joined ...
... courts , With firm but pliant virtue , forward still To urge his course - him for the studious shade Kind nature formed , deep , comprehensive , clear , Exact and elegant ; in one rich soul , Plato , the Stagyrite , and Tully joined ...
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... Court of Chancery . The Com- mons at this time were busied in the examinations of grievances , and the reforming of abuses . They were ap- prized of the loud complaints uttered against the Chan- cellor , and sent up an impeachment to ...
... Court of Chancery . The Com- mons at this time were busied in the examinations of grievances , and the reforming of abuses . They were ap- prized of the loud complaints uttered against the Chan- cellor , and sent up an impeachment to ...
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... Court . Without attempting to justify the slightest deviation in an office , where purity of principle and integrity of con- duct are more particularly expected to preside , this dreadful sentence may be considered as equally unjust and ...
... Court . Without attempting to justify the slightest deviation in an office , where purity of principle and integrity of con- duct are more particularly expected to preside , this dreadful sentence may be considered as equally unjust and ...
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... courts . Every one knows the press- ing solicitations made to him by the great Colbert , on the part of Louis XIV ... court of France ; but , after having received some considerable presents , and a pension for himself and his son ...
... courts . Every one knows the press- ing solicitations made to him by the great Colbert , on the part of Louis XIV ... court of France ; but , after having received some considerable presents , and a pension for himself and his son ...
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... court of Parliament . His infancy was by no means happy . His mother dying when young , and his father being wholly absorbed in business , he was abandoned to the care of an old servant , who treated him with much unkindness and ...
... court of Parliament . His infancy was by no means happy . His mother dying when young , and his father being wholly absorbed in business , he was abandoned to the care of an old servant , who treated him with much unkindness and ...
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