The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 73
2, without having even read any book ofgeometry, or being in any manner instructed in thescience, was enabled, by the force of his own genius, todemonstrate one of the most difficult propositions ofEuclid. The works of this famous mathematician have beenpublished at Oxford, by Gregory, in two… … FAUSTINA. If virtue appears hereditary in certain privileged fa-milies, vices are sometimes as fatal a succession, whichincrease almost always in the hands of those who re-ceive them. Among the examples of this melancholytruth, we may place in the first rank the Empress Faus-tina, the daughter of…
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![An illustration from Записки старой смолянки Императорскаго В.О.Б.Д. В. П. Б-вой [i.e. Varvara Petrovna Buikova]. 1833-1878 г. Часть первая ... Примѣчанія и изданіе Свящ. К. Знскаго [i.e. K. Znamensky.] [With plates (1898)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/bl-bl_000556293_0-24-1.webp)
![An illustration from Edith the Captive; or, the Robbers of Epping Forest. By the author of “Jane Brightwell,” [i.e. J. M. Rymer.] etc (1861)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/bl-bl_001038398_1-93-1.webp)
