The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 269
s rendered to Virtue rather than toBeauty. His passion is noble and heroic; it elevates thesoul instead of softening it. What Plato conceived,Petrarch felt and expressed; and the author of the Nou-velle Heloise, who was so fully capable of painting itsemotions, has paid him the greatest eulogium,… … — — PETER THE GREAT. Peter Alexiowitz I. called the Great, the son ofAlexis Michaelowitz, Czar of Muscovy, by his secondwife, although but ten years of age, was placed on thethrone after the death of his elder brother, Theodore, tothe prejudice of his brother Iwan, who was weak both inbody and…
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