The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 105
ngraving in mezzotinto. He hadalso a taste for music; but what is more extraordinary,his predominant passion was the study of alchymy. Thisabsurd, and often fatal study, reduced him at length toindigence, which was succeeded by a deep and incurablemelancholy, under which he expired, at the early… … fLATO. t*LAto, who, from ihe sublimity of his doctrines, hasbeen surnamed the Divine, belonged to one of the mostilkistrious families of Athens, where he was born about429 3^ears B. Ci He was a descendant of Codrus by hisfather, and of Solon, by his mother*s side ; but, as ifsuch an origin had not…
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