The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... reputation has not kept pace with his fame as a philosopher ; his genius , indeed , as in every thing else , enabled him to explore and comprehend the principles of law , considered as a science ; but in the technical and practical part ...
... reputation has not kept pace with his fame as a philosopher ; his genius , indeed , as in every thing else , enabled him to explore and comprehend the principles of law , considered as a science ; but in the technical and practical part ...
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... reputation . Though inferior in some respects to Galilæo , and , perhaps , even to Kepler , he surpassed them both in the extent of his researches , and the boldness of his discoveries . His Latinity is re- markable , rather for the ...
... reputation . Though inferior in some respects to Galilæo , and , perhaps , even to Kepler , he surpassed them both in the extent of his researches , and the boldness of his discoveries . His Latinity is re- markable , rather for the ...
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... reputation , even in his life - time , had spread far beyond the limits of this island , and early presaged the immortality it has ob- tained . Whatever in the revolution of ages , may be the fate of this empire , even to that distant ...
... reputation , even in his life - time , had spread far beyond the limits of this island , and early presaged the immortality it has ob- tained . Whatever in the revolution of ages , may be the fate of this empire , even to that distant ...
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... reputation which succeeding generations have not been able to decrease . Nicholas Boileau - Despréaux was born at Crosne , near Paris , in 1636. He was the eleventh son of Gilles Boileau , register of the high court of Parliament . His ...
... reputation which succeeding generations have not been able to decrease . Nicholas Boileau - Despréaux was born at Crosne , near Paris , in 1636. He was the eleventh son of Gilles Boileau , register of the high court of Parliament . His ...
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... reputation , and made him known at Court . Invited thither by Louis XIV . he had the honour to recite several cantos of his poem to that enlightened prince , who treated him with great liberality . He was granted the exclusive privilege ...
... reputation , and made him known at Court . Invited thither by Louis XIV . he had the honour to recite several cantos of his poem to that enlightened prince , who treated him with great liberality . He was granted the exclusive privilege ...
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