Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Том 12Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... Truth prevailed in all his works , grace in very few or none . Nor was there any ease in his outline ; but the stiffness of a bust in all his por- traits . Walpole . LIP , in Anatomy . See there , N ° 102 . Hare - LIP , a disorder in ...
... Truth prevailed in all his works , grace in very few or none . Nor was there any ease in his outline ; but the stiffness of a bust in all his por- traits . Walpole . LIP , in Anatomy . See there , N ° 102 . Hare - LIP , a disorder in ...
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... truth , we must be- lieve that the sea then boiled around the island ; the earth became so hot as to burn the cables by which ves- sels were fixed to the shore , and consumed the planks , the oars , and even the small boats . Pliny ...
... truth , we must be- lieve that the sea then boiled around the island ; the earth became so hot as to burn the cables by which ves- sels were fixed to the shore , and consumed the planks , the oars , and even the small boats . Pliny ...
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... truth in his compositions than any other artist of that time . At Florence Lippi painted many grand designs for the chapels and convents , by which he en- larged his reputation ; and at the court of Inspruck , he painted a great number ...
... truth in his compositions than any other artist of that time . At Florence Lippi painted many grand designs for the chapels and convents , by which he en- larged his reputation ; and at the court of Inspruck , he painted a great number ...
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... truth . Soon after his arrival in England from Malaga , he was carried to Theobald's on a feather - bed , that King James might be an eyc- witness of his martyred anatomy , by which he means his wretched body , mangled and reduced to a ...
... truth . Soon after his arrival in England from Malaga , he was carried to Theobald's on a feather - bed , that King James might be an eyc- witness of his martyred anatomy , by which he means his wretched body , mangled and reduced to a ...
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... truth.- What a school of public and private virtue had been opened to us at the resurrection of learning , if the lat ter historians of the Roman commonwealth , and the first of the succeeding monarchy , had come down to us entire ! The ...
... truth.- What a school of public and private virtue had been opened to us at the resurrection of learning , if the lat ter historians of the Roman commonwealth , and the first of the succeeding monarchy , had come down to us entire ! The ...
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