The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 22Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1815 - Biography |
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... ancient art which his family had collected . One of the first public occurrences after he conducted the helm of government , was a revolt of the inhabitants of Volterra , on account of 1 Roscoe's Life of Lorenzo . - Rees's Cyclopædia ...
... ancient art which his family had collected . One of the first public occurrences after he conducted the helm of government , was a revolt of the inhabitants of Volterra , on account of 1 Roscoe's Life of Lorenzo . - Rees's Cyclopædia ...
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... ancient masters , to elevate their views beyond the forms of common life , to the contemplation of that ideal beauty which alone distinguishes works of art from mere mechanical productions . With this view he appro- priated his gardens ...
... ancient masters , to elevate their views beyond the forms of common life , to the contemplation of that ideal beauty which alone distinguishes works of art from mere mechanical productions . With this view he appro- priated his gardens ...
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... ancients ; as their music , the struc- ture of their galleys , & c . In 1652 he published a collec- tion of seven Greek authors , who had written upon ancient music , to which he added a Latin version by himself . was entitled " Antiquæ ...
... ancients ; as their music , the struc- ture of their galleys , & c . In 1652 he published a collec- tion of seven Greek authors , who had written upon ancient music , to which he added a Latin version by himself . was entitled " Antiquæ ...
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... ancients disposed their bancs of oars ; his edition of the ancient Greek Mythologists ; and his dialogues on Proportions , a curious work , in which the interlocutors , or persons represented as speaking , are Euclid , Archimedes ...
... ancients disposed their bancs of oars ; his edition of the ancient Greek Mythologists ; and his dialogues on Proportions , a curious work , in which the interlocutors , or persons represented as speaking , are Euclid , Archimedes ...
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... ancient Latin writer , was born in the province of Bætica in Spain , and flourished in the first century , in the reign of the emperor Claudius . His three books of " Cosmography , or De situ Orbis , " are written in a concise ...
... ancient Latin writer , was born in the province of Bætica in Spain , and flourished in the first century , in the reign of the emperor Claudius . His three books of " Cosmography , or De situ Orbis , " are written in a concise ...
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Page 331 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
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