The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 89
oldiers undertookto place the empire into other hands, in which they suc-ceeded, the Prsetorians having followed the example ofthe insurgents. Galba thought that his presence wouldallay the storm, but in vain : he was assassinated in oneof the squares of Rome on the 16th of January, in theyear 69,… … GARRICK. This celebrated cominedian, the sod of Peter Garrick,a captain in the army, was born at Hereford, on the 28thof February, 1716. He was descended from a Frenchfamily, who being protestants, fled to England on therevocation of the edict of Nantes. He received his edu-cation partly in the…
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