General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons Of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order, Volume 9Robinson, 1814 - 644 pages |
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... regarded as displaying more of the true poet than most of those who have distin- guished themselves by modern Latin verse , his compositions abounding in fire , imagination , and energy . Not unfrequently , however , his thoughts are ...
... regarded as displaying more of the true poet than most of those who have distin- guished themselves by modern Latin verse , his compositions abounding in fire , imagination , and energy . Not unfrequently , however , his thoughts are ...
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... regarded him as the brightest ornament of their country , for knowledge , wisdom , and virtue . His funeral obsequies were celebrated with all possible public magnificence , and attended by a vast concourse of the nobles , and the other ...
... regarded him as the brightest ornament of their country , for knowledge , wisdom , and virtue . His funeral obsequies were celebrated with all possible public magnificence , and attended by a vast concourse of the nobles , and the other ...
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... regarded as one of the most considerable members of his little republic , in which he founded a society of arts , and promoted every exertion for the ad- vancement of the public prosperity . When Geneva was united to the French republic ...
... regarded as one of the most considerable members of his little republic , in which he founded a society of arts , and promoted every exertion for the ad- vancement of the public prosperity . When Geneva was united to the French republic ...
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... regarded as a great improvement in nosology , since it leads to an easy and precise identification , not depending upon any theoretical notions of cause , and applicable to any system . Its fault is the temptation it offers to multiply ...
... regarded as a great improvement in nosology , since it leads to an easy and precise identification , not depending upon any theoretical notions of cause , and applicable to any system . Its fault is the temptation it offers to multiply ...
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... regarded him as an object of abhorrence , and to her cruel and unnatural conduct is originally to be attributed that series of misfortune which persecuted poor Savage from his cradle to his grave . She immediately placed him at nurse ...
... regarded him as an object of abhorrence , and to her cruel and unnatural conduct is originally to be attributed that series of misfortune which persecuted poor Savage from his cradle to his grave . She immediately placed him at nurse ...
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