The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... talents , as one of the most extraordinary men that any nation ever pro- duced . He broke through the scholastic ... talent could not fail of being improved by all the advantages which parental fondness and a learned eduENGLAND ...
... talents , as one of the most extraordinary men that any nation ever pro- duced . He broke through the scholastic ... talent could not fail of being improved by all the advantages which parental fondness and a learned eduENGLAND ...
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... talents of Sir Ed- ward Coke . He published several tracts upon the sub- ject , among which his Reading on the Statute of Uses is esteemed . His general merit soon procured him notice and distinction , and at the early age of twenty ...
... talents of Sir Ed- ward Coke . He published several tracts upon the sub- ject , among which his Reading on the Statute of Uses is esteemed . His general merit soon procured him notice and distinction , and at the early age of twenty ...
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... talents as of his fortune ; that is to say , by directing it to the assistance of the necessitous . He died at an advanced age , in the midst of his noble occupations . Pleading one day the cause of one of his friends , and having ...
... talents as of his fortune ; that is to say , by directing it to the assistance of the necessitous . He died at an advanced age , in the midst of his noble occupations . Pleading one day the cause of one of his friends , and having ...
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... talents at home , it is unnecessary to seek elsewhere . " This anecdote has been related by the in- genious author of the Historical Essays on Paris , who asserts that Bernini , far from admiring the designs of Perrault , evinced the ...
... talents at home , it is unnecessary to seek elsewhere . " This anecdote has been related by the in- genious author of the Historical Essays on Paris , who asserts that Bernini , far from admiring the designs of Perrault , evinced the ...
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... talent for poetry developed itself . His father intended him for the bar ; but , becoming soon disgusted with the study of the law , he directed his thoughts to the church , to which he shortly after conceived a dislike . Boileau ...
... talent for poetry developed itself . His father intended him for the bar ; but , becoming soon disgusted with the study of the law , he directed his thoughts to the church , to which he shortly after conceived a dislike . Boileau ...
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