The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 347
lthim, as to the rich. Van Swieten owes his celebrity to his enthusiasm forthe doctrine of Boerhaave, on whose works he was anable commentator; applying himself solely to collect theideas of his master, and to develope them to the world.He produced nothing original either to enlarge the fieldof… … -/v fa M \ faQ p Enj:.iir,i !■■ ...■.■ CARDINAL XIMENES. Don FRANcrs Ximenes de Cisneros was born in1437, at Torrelaguna, in Old Castile, of a noble but de-cayed family. Destined from early life for the ecclesiasti-cal functions, he studied at Salamanca, and afterwards atRome. Cardinal Gonsolez…
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