The New Universal Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer of Departed Merit: Containing Complete and Impartial Accounts of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, But More Particularly of Those who Have Signalized Themselves in America. In Four Volumes. Embellished with a Number of Portraits of the Most Distinguished Characters, Engraved from Original Drawings, Volumes 3-4Johnson & Stryker, at the Literary Printing-Office No. 29 Gold-Street, 1802 |
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... Italy under his own patronage , and to take him under his immediate protection , as soon as his studies should be completed . But Handel's parents not thinking proper to submit their son to the caprice of the king , declined the offer ...
... Italy under his own patronage , and to take him under his immediate protection , as soon as his studies should be completed . But Handel's parents not thinking proper to submit their son to the caprice of the king , declined the offer ...
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... Italy , where he was received with the greatest kindness by the grand duke of Tuscany . His se- rene highness was impatient to have something com- posed by so great a master ; and notwithstanding the difference between the style of the ...
... Italy , where he was received with the greatest kindness by the grand duke of Tuscany . His se- rene highness was impatient to have something com- posed by so great a master ; and notwithstanding the difference between the style of the ...
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... Italian masters ; and it was at last determined that the rivals should be employed in making an opera , in which each should take a distinct act , and that he who by the general suffrage was allowed to have given the best proof of his ...
... Italian masters ; and it was at last determined that the rivals should be employed in making an opera , in which each should take a distinct act , and that he who by the general suffrage was allowed to have given the best proof of his ...
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... Italy , for his farther improvement , and having studied five years more under the best masters , particularly the famous Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente , he was created Doctor of Physic in that university , 1602 . Soon after this ...
... Italy , for his farther improvement , and having studied five years more under the best masters , particularly the famous Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente , he was created Doctor of Physic in that university , 1602 . Soon after this ...
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... Italy , where , at Pisa , he became known to Galileo , who communicated to him his notions very freely ; and , after having seen all that was remarkable in that country , he returned to England in 1637 . The civil wars commencing soon ...
... Italy , where , at Pisa , he became known to Galileo , who communicated to him his notions very freely ; and , after having seen all that was remarkable in that country , he returned to England in 1637 . The civil wars commencing soon ...
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