The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... nature formed , deep , comprehensive , clear , Exact and elegant ; in one rich soul , Plato , the Stagyrite , and Tully joined . The great deliverer He ! who from the gloom Of cloistered monks and jargon - teaching schools , Led forth ...
... nature formed , deep , comprehensive , clear , Exact and elegant ; in one rich soul , Plato , the Stagyrite , and Tully joined . The great deliverer He ! who from the gloom Of cloistered monks and jargon - teaching schools , Led forth ...
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... natural inclination , which rather led him to apply himself to state affairs . He entered himself of Gray's Inn , in which society he conti- nued to reside , even after his elevation to the highest dignities . He there erected a ...
... natural inclination , which rather led him to apply himself to state affairs . He entered himself of Gray's Inn , in which society he conti- nued to reside , even after his elevation to the highest dignities . He there erected a ...
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... painful to recite these unworthy acts of a man so highly celebrated , but whose powerful and comprehensive genius could not shield him . from the common weaknesses of human nature . The death of Elizabeth , and the accession of James.
... painful to recite these unworthy acts of a man so highly celebrated , but whose powerful and comprehensive genius could not shield him . from the common weaknesses of human nature . The death of Elizabeth , and the accession of James.
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... natural philosophy , he was taken so ill with a defluxion on his breast , attended with a fever , that he was compelled to remain at the Earl of Arundel's house , at Highgate , near London , about a week , and there he expired on Easter ...
... natural philosophy , he was taken so ill with a defluxion on his breast , attended with a fever , that he was compelled to remain at the Earl of Arundel's house , at Highgate , near London , about a week , and there he expired on Easter ...
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... nature ; he that would enter upon it must combine , with the ornaments of style , profound science , discrimination , and candour , in reviewing his philosophical works , and the most impartial justice in comparing him with the ...
... nature ; he that would enter upon it must combine , with the ornaments of style , profound science , discrimination , and candour , in reviewing his philosophical works , and the most impartial justice in comparing him with the ...
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