The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 343
im the command of an army,which he intended to send against Greece. Reducedthus to the sad alternative of acting with ingratitude to-wards his benefactor, or taking up arms against hiscountrymen, Themistocles determined to suffer death. 230 THEMISTGCLES. [athens. He made a solemn sacrifice to the… … ffr:^^7T~~7^~~--^r^iWiT7~~X~ _ ~ VAN SWIETEN. Gerard Van Swieten was born at Leyden, the 7thMay, 1700. He devoted himself very early to the studyof physic. After having finished his course of philosophyat Louvain, he retired to Leyden, where he very soondistinguished himself among the numerous…
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