The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 85
instructed othersby his own conduct. He was full of anecdote, and hada peculiar art, in conversation, to lead people to talk ofwhat they understood best; by which means he acquired aninsight into most arts. His principal works, which will ren-der his name immortal, are—An Essay on Human… … londonPublLrhd hy TerrwrHocd.&■ SharpcPouJtiy Aiw.1.1&08. MABILLON John Mabillon, bora on the 23d of November,1632, at Saint-Pierremont, in Champagne, devoted him-self, at an early age, to a monastic hfe, in the congrega-tion of St. Maur. Among the numerous works which this…
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