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The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)

London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 37

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histaste for athletic exercises—and the Ionians by his loveof idleness, his voluptuousness and magnificence, whichsurpassed that of the most profuse governors. Hisambition led him to raise Athens to the greatest pitch ofglory, before he sought to place it at his feet. This wasthe motive of all the… … -w^JTJmi!! Li:! I mh iMLUUiiiliiLlUiilil I^HiLLlir Drawn ev Cochin.. £n$ra>d bv G.Ceokt. ZoiuJon .\PuMU/i d by 7cnu>r, Hood ■. j DALEMBERT. Jean le Rond DAlembert, an eminent Frenchphilosopher, was the natural son of Destouches-Canonand Madame de Tencin. He was born at Paris in theyear 1707,…

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