The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... merit soon procured him notice and distinction , and at the early age of twenty - eight , he was appointed one of the Queen's council extraordinary ; but he obtained no higher proferment during the reign of Elizabeth . That princess ...
... merit soon procured him notice and distinction , and at the early age of twenty - eight , he was appointed one of the Queen's council extraordinary ; but he obtained no higher proferment during the reign of Elizabeth . That princess ...
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... merit , he remitted the fine , as well as the other parts of the sentence , conferred on him a large pension of 18001. a - year , and employed every expedient to alleviate the weight of his age and misfortunes . He was also summoned to ...
... merit , he remitted the fine , as well as the other parts of the sentence , conferred on him a large pension of 18001. a - year , and employed every expedient to alleviate the weight of his age and misfortunes . He was also summoned to ...
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... merit , as a philosopher , we presume not to enlarge ; the bare enumeration of his nu- merous and valuable works would occupy a greater space than we can at present spare . His noble treatise on the Advancement of Learning , and the ...
... merit , as a philosopher , we presume not to enlarge ; the bare enumeration of his nu- merous and valuable works would occupy a greater space than we can at present spare . His noble treatise on the Advancement of Learning , and the ...
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... merit it is unnecessary to speak , he translated the Treatise on the Sublime , by Longinus : to which , on being engaged in the dispute with Perrault , on the ancients and the moderns , he added some critical remarks . His prose ...
... merit it is unnecessary to speak , he translated the Treatise on the Sublime , by Longinus : to which , on being engaged in the dispute with Perrault , on the ancients and the moderns , he added some critical remarks . His prose ...
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... merit , and his wisdom , procured him the offer of several ecclesiastical dignities . He was at first a monk at Cologne , afterwards at Rheims ; and was appointed chancellor of that church . Compelled to relinquish that appointment ...
... merit , and his wisdom , procured him the offer of several ecclesiastical dignities . He was at first a monk at Cologne , afterwards at Rheims ; and was appointed chancellor of that church . Compelled to relinquish that appointment ...
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