The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... writers state that mezzotinto scraping was the invention of Lieutenant- colonel de Siegen ; that he thus engraved the portrait of the Landgravine of Hesse , in 1643 ; and that Prince Rupert learnt the art of him , and carried it into ...
... writers state that mezzotinto scraping was the invention of Lieutenant- colonel de Siegen ; that he thus engraved the portrait of the Landgravine of Hesse , in 1643 ; and that Prince Rupert learnt the art of him , and carried it into ...
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... writer , was one of the works edited by Heyne , while at Dresden ; and he used to relate that his fortitude , amid the difficulties that he had to struggle with at the time , was not a little strengthened and upheld by the precepts of ...
... writer , was one of the works edited by Heyne , while at Dresden ; and he used to relate that his fortitude , amid the difficulties that he had to struggle with at the time , was not a little strengthened and upheld by the precepts of ...
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... writers on classic antiquities and the fine arts that modern times have produced , was the son of a shoemaker . His father , after vainly endeav- oring , for some time , at the expense of many sacrifices , to give him a learned ...
... writers on classic antiquities and the fine arts that modern times have produced , was the son of a shoemaker . His father , after vainly endeav- oring , for some time , at the expense of many sacrifices , to give him a learned ...
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... writing , and not finding his hut so comfortable as he could have wished , left with him a sum of money to rebuild it . Men are proud of an illustrious ancestry ; and it is very intelligible why they should be so ; but to those who have ...
... writing , and not finding his hut so comfortable as he could have wished , left with him a sum of money to rebuild it . Men are proud of an illustrious ancestry ; and it is very intelligible why they should be so ; but to those who have ...
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... writer , GELLI , who , even after he had obtained so much distinction by his writings as to have been elected to the high dignity of consul of the Florentine Academy , and appointed by the grand duke to deliver a course of lectures on ...
... writer , GELLI , who , even after he had obtained so much distinction by his writings as to have been elected to the high dignity of consul of the Florentine Academy , and appointed by the grand duke to deliver a course of lectures on ...
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