The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 7Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 |
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... talents and approved valour he was fully sensible , feeling himself happy to obey a gene- ral of such superior experience . Aristides was present at the celebrated battle of Marathon , and was entrusted after the victory with the care ...
... talents and approved valour he was fully sensible , feeling himself happy to obey a gene- ral of such superior experience . Aristides was present at the celebrated battle of Marathon , and was entrusted after the victory with the care ...
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... talents , exploits , and atrocities , have been the astonish- ment of the present age , and whose actions will be no less regarded by posterity with wonder and admira- tion . Napoleon Buonaparte , who , from a station in life ...
... talents , exploits , and atrocities , have been the astonish- ment of the present age , and whose actions will be no less regarded by posterity with wonder and admira- tion . Napoleon Buonaparte , who , from a station in life ...
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... talent of attracting and of at- taching to his person all the learned men in Europe ; among whom was the celebrated Alcuin , whom he loaded with honours , and with tokens of the purest esteem . He was himself fond of study , to which he ...
... talent of attracting and of at- taching to his person all the learned men in Europe ; among whom was the celebrated Alcuin , whom he loaded with honours , and with tokens of the purest esteem . He was himself fond of study , to which he ...
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... talents of a skilful legislator ; had not his genius , as extensive as profound , em- braced at once every part of the administration , ele- vated itself , without effort , to the most sublime con- ceptions , and descended , with equal ...
... talents of a skilful legislator ; had not his genius , as extensive as profound , em- braced at once every part of the administration , ele- vated itself , without effort , to the most sublime con- ceptions , and descended , with equal ...
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... talents as a statesman and distinguished orator , than for his taste for the Belles Lettres , and his amiable per- sonal qualities . He manifested from his youth a desire of pleasing and of rendering himself conspicuous ; and this ...
... talents as a statesman and distinguished orator , than for his taste for the Belles Lettres , and his amiable per- sonal qualities . He manifested from his youth a desire of pleasing and of rendering himself conspicuous ; and this ...
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