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

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of the heretical noblemen of Bohemia. The learned and candid Melancthon speaks thus ofWickliffe, He foolishly confounds the gospel and poli-tics, and does not see that the gospel permits us to makeuse of all the lawful forms of government of all nations.He contends that it is not lawful for priests… … Faint:i WKMaiqs. . WINCKELMAN. John Winckelman was born at Stendal, in theancient Marche of Brandenburgh, in 1718. Hisfather was a shoemaker, and wholly incapable of cul-tivating the taste for literature which he developed atan early age. Left entirely to himself, Wincklemanstudied the best Latin…

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