The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 7Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 - Artists |
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... labours of Buffon , which he published , were translations of some English works . Hales's Vegetable Statics in 1735 , and of Newton's Fluxions , in 1740. These he enriched with prefaces , in which is observable the lofty and dignified ...
... labours of Buffon , which he published , were translations of some English works . Hales's Vegetable Statics in 1735 , and of Newton's Fluxions , in 1740. These he enriched with prefaces , in which is observable the lofty and dignified ...
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... persecutions , which trouble their existence , they suffer envy and authority to have full scope ; and by useful labours , by works which command , not obe- FRANCE . ] BUFFON . dience , but esteem or BUFFON . [ FRANCE .
... persecutions , which trouble their existence , they suffer envy and authority to have full scope ; and by useful labours , by works which command , not obe- FRANCE . ] BUFFON . dience , but esteem or BUFFON . [ FRANCE .
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... laboured at it without intermission . The pieces which Buffon the most esteemed are the Discourse on the First Man , successively animated by the developement of his different sensations , the picture of the Deserts of Arabia , under ...
... laboured at it without intermission . The pieces which Buffon the most esteemed are the Discourse on the First Man , successively animated by the developement of his different sensations , the picture of the Deserts of Arabia , under ...
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... labour , but was unsuc- cessful . The leading particulars of his political life , after this , were his exertions against Mr. Hastings , in which , with peculiar asperity , he used uncommon in- dustry to fasten guilt upon that gentleman ...
... labour , but was unsuc- cessful . The leading particulars of his political life , after this , were his exertions against Mr. Hastings , in which , with peculiar asperity , he used uncommon in- dustry to fasten guilt upon that gentleman ...
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... labours , profits , and suc- cess , of these two painters , were in common ; the only instance ( says a French author ) of such an union be- tween two artists . Mathurino dying of the plague , and Bourbon having pillaged Rome ...
... labours , profits , and suc- cess , of these two painters , were in common ; the only instance ( says a French author ) of such an union be- tween two artists . Mathurino dying of the plague , and Bourbon having pillaged Rome ...
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