The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... letters , may be considered as the reformer and legislator of the French Parnassus : whose verses rendered familiar to every capacity the laws which reason and the most enlightened ages have avowed . He fixed , in a great measure , the ...
... letters , may be considered as the reformer and legislator of the French Parnassus : whose verses rendered familiar to every capacity the laws which reason and the most enlightened ages have avowed . He fixed , in a great measure , the ...
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... letter to his mother , in whom it inspired more than common concern . " It is a fortnight since we set out from hence , upon a little excursion to Geneva . We took the longest road , which lies through FRANCE . ] ST . BRUNO . Savoy , on ...
... letter to his mother , in whom it inspired more than common concern . " It is a fortnight since we set out from hence , upon a little excursion to Geneva . We took the longest road , which lies through FRANCE . ] ST . BRUNO . Savoy , on ...
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... letter to his friend West , he says , with his wonted enthusiasm , " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse , I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclama- tion , that there was no restraining ; not a precipice ...
... letter to his friend West , he says , with his wonted enthusiasm , " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse , I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclama- tion , that there was no restraining ; not a precipice ...
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... letters , and the study of philosophy . He died , of the gout , on the 26th of December , 1771 - his widow survived him nearly thirty years . " Few men , " says St. Lambert , " have been more favourably treated by nature . From her he ...
... letters , and the study of philosophy . He died , of the gout , on the 26th of December , 1771 - his widow survived him nearly thirty years . " Few men , " says St. Lambert , " have been more favourably treated by nature . From her he ...
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... Letters on Switzerland , with considerable energy and effect . Ma- dame Roland , whose Memoirs appertain to the History of the Revolution in France , and its consequences , the most astonishing upon record , has made us acquainted with ...
... Letters on Switzerland , with considerable energy and effect . Ma- dame Roland , whose Memoirs appertain to the History of the Revolution in France , and its consequences , the most astonishing upon record , has made us acquainted with ...
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