The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 |
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... principal and original source of wealth , and consequently of the pros- perity of a great empire , was commerce ; for which rea- son he endeavoured to naturalize , among the Persians , a nation , in fact , inconsiderable , but justly ...
... principal and original source of wealth , and consequently of the pros- perity of a great empire , was commerce ; for which rea- son he endeavoured to naturalize , among the Persians , a nation , in fact , inconsiderable , but justly ...
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... principal inducement to , this measure . It would lead us too far to detail the proceedings of this extraordinary divorce , which so long occupied the atten- tion of England and of Europe . It will be sufficient to state , that Clement ...
... principal inducement to , this measure . It would lead us too far to detail the proceedings of this extraordinary divorce , which so long occupied the atten- tion of England and of Europe . It will be sufficient to state , that Clement ...
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... principal Universities , and , having received from them all judgments favourable to his cause , he , in defiance to the Pope , and of his own authority , on the 23d of May , 1533 , commanded Cranmer to pronounce the definitive sentence ...
... principal Universities , and , having received from them all judgments favourable to his cause , he , in defiance to the Pope , and of his own authority , on the 23d of May , 1533 , commanded Cranmer to pronounce the definitive sentence ...
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... principal character is meant to represent the Duke of Dorset . This work seems to have given Addison a model for his Dialogues on Medals . In 1681 , Dryden became yet more conspicuous , by uniting politics with poetry , in the memorable ...
... principal character is meant to represent the Duke of Dorset . This work seems to have given Addison a model for his Dialogues on Medals . In 1681 , Dryden became yet more conspicuous , by uniting politics with poetry , in the memorable ...
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... principal designs , together with the characters of the chiefest English persons ( wherein , after Virgil and Spenser , I would have taken occasion to represent my living friends and patrons of the noblest families , and also shadowed ...
... principal designs , together with the characters of the chiefest English persons ( wherein , after Virgil and Spenser , I would have taken occasion to represent my living friends and patrons of the noblest families , and also shadowed ...
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