The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Том 10George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1861 |
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... original in the Pitti palace , which is said to have occupied him 5 years . His engraving of Raphael's " Vir- gin with the Vine " is one of the choicest pro- ductions of the graver in modern times . During his later years he gave much ...
... original in the Pitti palace , which is said to have occupied him 5 years . His engraving of Raphael's " Vir- gin with the Vine " is one of the choicest pro- ductions of the graver in modern times . During his later years he gave much ...
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... original preface was at once a characteris- tic and a highly valuable essay . It enumerated some of the difficulties attending such a work , and the methods the author had used to over- come them , and also dwelt at some length upon his ...
... original preface was at once a characteris- tic and a highly valuable essay . It enumerated some of the difficulties attending such a work , and the methods the author had used to over- come them , and also dwelt at some length upon his ...
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... original and selected , on various passages . But the work had been performed wholly as a task , and it was not such as the reputation of the ed- itor had promised . He no doubt possessed many valuable qualifications for such a work ...
... original and selected , on various passages . But the work had been performed wholly as a task , and it was not such as the reputation of the ed- itor had promised . He no doubt possessed many valuable qualifications for such a work ...
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... original manuscripts from which Mr. Macpherson pretended to have translated the poems of Ossian , and came away confirm- ed in the conviction that a large share of that work was a forgery , and the rest of compara- tively modern origin ...
... original manuscripts from which Mr. Macpherson pretended to have translated the poems of Ossian , and came away confirm- ed in the conviction that a large share of that work was a forgery , and the rest of compara- tively modern origin ...
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... original , he made himself master of the French , Italian , Spanish , and German languages . His first important work was the " National Atlas " ( 1843 ) , which procured his election to the royal geographical society , and his ...
... original , he made himself master of the French , Italian , Spanish , and German languages . His first important work was the " National Atlas " ( 1843 ) , which procured his election to the royal geographical society , and his ...
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