The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 145
alarm ; and it appearsthat the dread of being supplanted in public favourshortened his existence. He died suddenly in 1680. Some of the portraits of Lely have been compared tothose of Vandyck. His pencil was light and delicate,his colouring lovely, the airs of his heads and his figuresamiable and… … LEIBNITZ. William Godfrey Leibnitz, born at Leipsic, in1646, was, like his cotemporary Newton, of a very superiorgenius. His father, who was professor of moral philosophyin that University, left him a numerous and well-chosenlibrary; and, by following a method of study peculiarto himself, he became…
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