The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 263
good of society. M. Fleury has chosen, for the subject of his picture,the moment in which Orestes, while asleep, beholds in adream the apparition of his mother, bearing in her bosomthe dagger with which he inflicted the fatal wound.One of the furies raises the veil of Clytemnestra, anotherpresents… … HIPPOCRATES, GIRODET. Hippocrates was born about the year 460 B. C. inthe island of Coos, which is indebted to him for its cele-brity ; and where, to this day, are venerated the ruins ofa house which is conceived by the inhabitants to be thatof this celebrated physician. His ancestors had…
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