The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 7Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 - Artists |
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... glory than Themistocles and Pericles , but in- finitely more than either to their happiness . His ex- ample restrained for some time the depravity of morals , and truly merited that posterity , austere but equitable , should apply his ...
... glory than Themistocles and Pericles , but in- finitely more than either to their happiness . His ex- ample restrained for some time the depravity of morals , and truly merited that posterity , austere but equitable , should apply his ...
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... glory . The advantage he obtained over the allied armies during the campaigns of 1796 and 1797 , established his reputation as a warrior and a commander ; and from that period until the peace of Campo Formio , Buonaparte marched from ...
... glory . The advantage he obtained over the allied armies during the campaigns of 1796 and 1797 , established his reputation as a warrior and a commander ; and from that period until the peace of Campo Formio , Buonaparte marched from ...
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... glory , has already proved no less disastrous to the French legions than creditable to the valour of the Portugueze . On the issue of this magnanimous struggle of the two nations , for the preservation of their liberties and indepen ...
... glory , has already proved no less disastrous to the French legions than creditable to the valour of the Portugueze . On the issue of this magnanimous struggle of the two nations , for the preservation of their liberties and indepen ...
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... glory . Every thing conspired to that end . What may be imputed to vanity , to weakness , and to egotism in another , becomes interesting when we consider the object he proposed to himself , his long and absolute devotion to the most ...
... glory . Every thing conspired to that end . What may be imputed to vanity , to weakness , and to egotism in another , becomes interesting when we consider the object he proposed to himself , his long and absolute devotion to the most ...
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... glory and the power . His mind was first attracted towards the Saxons , turbulent and dangerous neighbours , whose audacity he was desirous of repressing . They frequently wearied his patience without ever abating his courage , and it ...
... glory and the power . His mind was first attracted towards the Saxons , turbulent and dangerous neighbours , whose audacity he was desirous of repressing . They frequently wearied his patience without ever abating his courage , and it ...
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