The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 |
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... hand of that master . It formed , no doubt , a part of the pannels of some great work , or filled a vacuum in some extensive gallery . Although it is impossible , at this distance of time , to ascertain its real author , it bears ...
... hand of that master . It formed , no doubt , a part of the pannels of some great work , or filled a vacuum in some extensive gallery . Although it is impossible , at this distance of time , to ascertain its real author , it bears ...
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... hand . Unwilling this time to bestow it on a subject , he rather wished to select some foreign Princess , whose birth should be nearer his own , and by means of whose alliance , his affairs might receive a considerable accession of ...
... hand . Unwilling this time to bestow it on a subject , he rather wished to select some foreign Princess , whose birth should be nearer his own , and by means of whose alliance , his affairs might receive a considerable accession of ...
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... hand writing is strong and clear , and might be easily decyphered , but for the numerous abbrevia- tions . How the French became possessed of these let- ters is an historical fact which was not explained to the writer of this memoir ...
... hand writing is strong and clear , and might be easily decyphered , but for the numerous abbrevia- tions . How the French became possessed of these let- ters is an historical fact which was not explained to the writer of this memoir ...
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... hands to heaven , exclaimed , " O Father ! O Creator ! thou who art the way , the truth , and the life , thou knowest that I have not deserved this fate ! " and turning to her judges , continued to make the most earnest protestations of ...
... hands to heaven , exclaimed , " O Father ! O Creator ! thou who art the way , the truth , and the life , thou knowest that I have not deserved this fate ! " and turning to her judges , continued to make the most earnest protestations of ...
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... hands , and smiling . The fear of in- volving her innocent offspring in a similar fate , made her , on the scaffold , soften the expression of that indig- nation she could not avoid feeling . She said , she was come to die according to ...
... hands , and smiling . The fear of in- volving her innocent offspring in a similar fate , made her , on the scaffold , soften the expression of that indig- nation she could not avoid feeling . She said , she was come to die according to ...
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