The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 71
o much violent ambition and enraged fanaticismwith such regard to justice and humanity. Even themurder of the king, his most atrocious measure, was tohim covered under a cloud of republican and fanaticalillusions ; for it is the peculiar characteristic of fanati-cism to give a sanction to any… … - DIOGENES THE CYNIC. Diogenes, the son of Isecius, a banker, was born atSinope, a city of Pontus, in the third year of the ninety-first Olympiad, 419 years before Jesus Christ. Accused,with his father, of making- counterfeit money, he resolvedto withdraw himself from Athens. The Sinopeans,said he…
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