The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 253
learning, of rigid morals,and eminently pious. Nothing could be more benign,more pacific, more moderate, than his temper. Insteadof blushing at the lowness of his birth, Rollin on nooccasion hesitated to speak of it. It is from theCyclopss shop (says he in a Latin epigram to one ofhis friends, to… … MARSHAL SAXE. This superior man belongs to a nation in the bosomof which he has lived and acquired celebrity; a heroappertains still more justly to a people whose armies hehas led to victory. It is on this account that Franceacknowledges Marshal Saxe, and places him on thelist of the great…
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