The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 113
havingprotracted his stay till a heavy shower came on, he waslet out at a different door from that by which he entered,and, unmindful of his carriage, he set off on foot, andgot home dripping wet. When Mrs. Hogarth asked himwhere he had left the carnage, he said he had forgot it.He was accustomed,… … HORTENSIUS. Hortensius, whose eloquence placed him on therank of the first orators of antiquity, was born at Rome,in the year 640 of its foundation, 113 years before J.C,and eight years before Cicero. He was called to thebar at 19, and at that age greatly distinguished himselfin two brilliant…
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