The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... friendship with Bacon , and had zealously attempted , though with- out success , to procure him the office of Solicitor - Gene- ral , and in order to comfort him under the disappoint- ment , had conferred on him a present of land to the ...
... friendship with Bacon , and had zealously attempted , though with- out success , to procure him the office of Solicitor - Gene- ral , and in order to comfort him under the disappoint- ment , had conferred on him a present of land to the ...
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... friend and patron , whose generosity he had so often experienced . He enlarged upon the trea- son of the unhappy Essex , and compared his conduct , in pretending to fear the attacks of his adversaries , to that of Pisistratus , the ...
... friend and patron , whose generosity he had so often experienced . He enlarged upon the trea- son of the unhappy Essex , and compared his conduct , in pretending to fear the attacks of his adversaries , to that of Pisistratus , the ...
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... friendship was , would much rather hear a brilliant than a solid remark - a sally , than an axiom ; and was accustomed to say , " Love your friends , as if they might one day become your enemies . " He cultivated oratory with success ...
... friendship was , would much rather hear a brilliant than a solid remark - a sally , than an axiom ; and was accustomed to say , " Love your friends , as if they might one day become your enemies . " He cultivated oratory with success ...
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... friendship and esteem , seldom appeared at court , except to receive the commands of the king respecting his ... friends sufficiently proves . His heart was good , but his judgment unrelenting . He beheld an enemy in every bad ...
... friendship and esteem , seldom appeared at court , except to receive the commands of the king respecting his ... friends sufficiently proves . His heart was good , but his judgment unrelenting . He beheld an enemy in every bad ...
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... friend West , he says , with his wonted enthusiasm , " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse , I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclama- tion , that there was no restraining ; not a precipice , not a ...
... friend West , he says , with his wonted enthusiasm , " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse , I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclama- tion , that there was no restraining ; not a precipice , not a ...
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