The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... and affairs which require much less capacity , but greater firmness of mind , had exposed himself to the loss of character , to reproach , and calamity . ENGLAND . ] BACON . He happily escaped the plague BACON . [ ENGLAND .
... and affairs which require much less capacity , but greater firmness of mind , had exposed himself to the loss of character , to reproach , and calamity . ENGLAND . ] BACON . He happily escaped the plague BACON . [ ENGLAND .
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... mind , that he has been known to observe , if he had the offer of coming a second time into existence , upon the painful conditions of his childhood , he would much rather not be born . Re- gardless , however , of the neglect he ...
... mind , that he has been known to observe , if he had the offer of coming a second time into existence , upon the painful conditions of his childhood , he would much rather not be born . Re- gardless , however , of the neglect he ...
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... mind without frightening it . I am well persuaded , St. Bruno was a man of no common genius , to choose such a situation for his retirement ; and perhaps should have been a disciple of his , had I been born in his time . " STORE / BA し ...
... mind without frightening it . I am well persuaded , St. Bruno was a man of no common genius , to choose such a situation for his retirement ; and perhaps should have been a disciple of his , had I been born in his time . " STORE / BA し ...
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... mind became enlarged by a more liberal commerce with man- kind , his natural sagacity discovered to him how easily he might govern others by the same enthusiasm by which he himself had been misled ; and if he continued to use the same ...
... mind became enlarged by a more liberal commerce with man- kind , his natural sagacity discovered to him how easily he might govern others by the same enthusiasm by which he himself had been misled ; and if he continued to use the same ...
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... minds of the people , the remembrance of an act then unparalleled in the annals of mankind , and of which only one example could be produced in the history of ancient or modern Europe , in the person of Agis , of Lacedęmon , 300 years ...
... minds of the people , the remembrance of an act then unparalleled in the annals of mankind , and of which only one example could be produced in the history of ancient or modern Europe , in the person of Agis , of Lacedęmon , 300 years ...
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