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... racter with an investigative spirit , and that enthusiastic turn of mind which implicitly fol- lows the result of conviction , whatever the consequences . Brought up a Roman Catholic , in early life he is said to have been a strict ...
... racter with an investigative spirit , and that enthusiastic turn of mind which implicitly fol- lows the result of conviction , whatever the consequences . Brought up a Roman Catholic , in early life he is said to have been a strict ...
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... racter as an architect might have rested on them alone . Neither was his genius confined to the strict line of his profession ; his nume- rous drawings in landscape have merited and obtained the highest praise . He died at his house in ...
... racter as an architect might have rested on them alone . Neither was his genius confined to the strict line of his profession ; his nume- rous drawings in landscape have merited and obtained the highest praise . He died at his house in ...
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... racter of agent to the duke of Parma , he soon obtained a footing in the court of Philip V , and when that prince became a widower , carried into execution the measure of marrying him to the princess of Parma . His fortune was now ...
... racter of agent to the duke of Parma , he soon obtained a footing in the court of Philip V , and when that prince became a widower , carried into execution the measure of marrying him to the princess of Parma . His fortune was now ...
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... racter of this Athenian . On one night all the Hermæ , or half - statues of Mercury , in Athens , were defaced and mutilated ; and information was given that this sacrilege was the work of Alcibiades and his dissolute companions , in ...
... racter of this Athenian . On one night all the Hermæ , or half - statues of Mercury , in Athens , were defaced and mutilated ; and information was given that this sacrilege was the work of Alcibiades and his dissolute companions , in ...
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... racter and actions of Alexander . The former quote the wildness of his personal daring , the barren nature of much of his transient mastery , and his remorseless and unnecessary cruelty to the vanquished on some occasions , and ...
... racter and actions of Alexander . The former quote the wildness of his personal daring , the barren nature of much of his transient mastery , and his remorseless and unnecessary cruelty to the vanquished on some occasions , and ...
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