The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 21
d by the immense relations it maintained with thedifferent parts of the East, however distant. In 1622, with the assistance of the English, with whomhe had entered into an alliance, he took Ormus from thePortuguese: and, after a glorious reign of forty-fiveyears, Schah Abas died at Zazoayn, in… … ^ Wi : m ADRIAN. Publius ^Elius Adrianus, Emperor of Rome, wasborn, A. D. 76. The Emperor Trajan, who had beenhis tutor, induced him to marry his niece, Sabina, andadopted him, after having put his talents and his valourto repeated trials. He became, successively, Praetor,Governor of Pannonia, and…
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