The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... rendered familiar to every capacity the laws which reason and the most enlightened ages have avowed . He fixed , in a great measure , the language of his country , by the purity of his diction , the force and harmony of his style ; and ...
... rendered familiar to every capacity the laws which reason and the most enlightened ages have avowed . He fixed , in a great measure , the language of his country , by the purity of his diction , the force and harmony of his style ; and ...
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... rendered justice to the talents of that poet , who was at least equal to him in ele- gance , if not in force and sentiment . It must be con- fessed that he did not treat others with the same in- dulgence that he did himself , either in ...
... rendered justice to the talents of that poet , who was at least equal to him in ele- gance , if not in force and sentiment . It must be con- fessed that he did not treat others with the same in- dulgence that he did himself , either in ...
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... system - and of having victoriously established the position so ridiculously censured by the Sorbonne , that it is by good laws that men are rendered virtuous . THE R LIBRARY ASTOR NY 4 BEN JONSON . BENJAMIN HELVETIUS . [ FRANCE .
... system - and of having victoriously established the position so ridiculously censured by the Sorbonne , that it is by good laws that men are rendered virtuous . THE R LIBRARY ASTOR NY 4 BEN JONSON . BENJAMIN HELVETIUS . [ FRANCE .
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... rendered so celebrated in our days , were not unknown to the ancients ; but before his time moderns have flattered themselves with possessing a portion of his acute know- ledge . Julius Cęsar Scaliger , so famous for his erudi- tion ...
... rendered so celebrated in our days , were not unknown to the ancients ; but before his time moderns have flattered themselves with possessing a portion of his acute know- ledge . Julius Cęsar Scaliger , so famous for his erudi- tion ...
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... rendered ample justice to his prodigious ta- lent . Travellers of the greatest rank and discernment , and even those whose curiosity was simply excited on passing through Zurich , where this singular man , a minister of the holy gospel ...
... rendered ample justice to his prodigious ta- lent . Travellers of the greatest rank and discernment , and even those whose curiosity was simply excited on passing through Zurich , where this singular man , a minister of the holy gospel ...
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