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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... render it necessary . But whether he suspected the king's sincerity , or that he found insuperable difficulty in reconciling the army to such a measure , it was soon dropt , and he continued his scheme for reducing the parliament to ...
... render it necessary . But whether he suspected the king's sincerity , or that he found insuperable difficulty in reconciling the army to such a measure , it was soon dropt , and he continued his scheme for reducing the parliament to ...
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... render the name of an Englishman as much dreaded and revered as that of a Roman was . It must also be acknowledged , that in his civil and domestic administration , he displayed as much regard to justice and clemency , as his usurped ...
... render the name of an Englishman as much dreaded and revered as that of a Roman was . It must also be acknowledged , that in his civil and domestic administration , he displayed as much regard to justice and clemency , as his usurped ...
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... render him truly unhappy , go your way , and do not regard him . " Another day Diogenes went into the house of Plato , and beholding a rich carpet , he affected to trample it under foot . " I tread , " said he , " on the ostentation of ...
... render him truly unhappy , go your way , and do not regard him . " Another day Diogenes went into the house of Plato , and beholding a rich carpet , he affected to trample it under foot . " I tread , " said he , " on the ostentation of ...
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