Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . as able to pay but little attention. He enjoyed the patronage and es-teem, not only of the popes, but of Francis I. of France, and of other , he was too much given to licentious pleasures, which at lasthurried him to an untimely grave, on his birthday, 1520, aged thirty-seven. Raphael has been justly termed the fa
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . as able to pay but little attention. He enjoyed the patronage and es-teem, not only of the popes, but of Francis I. of France, and of other , he was too much given to licentious pleasures, which at lasthurried him to an untimely grave, on his birthday, 1520, aged thirty-seven. Raphael has been justly termed the father of dramatic painting — the painterof humanity. In his conceptions and execution he was almost the antipode ofMichael Angelo. Mildness was the great characteristic of his pictures, andbeauty of delineation and color seemed to have been his chief study. His stylewas not so elevating, but far more winning and delusive, than that of his greatcontemporary. M. Angelo, says Fuseli, came to Nature, Nature came toRaphael : he transmitted her features like a lucid glass, unstained, stand with awe before M. Angelo, and tremble at the height to which h*elevates us ; we embrace Raphael, and follow wherever he leads us. c - ; \ joe MARTIN MARTIN LUTHER. MARTIN LUTHER, the great, church reformer, was born Nov. 10, 1483, atEisleben, in Lower Saxony. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the schoolof Magdeburg, from which he was removed to Eisenach, and thence to theuniversity of Erfurt, where, in 1503, he received a masters degree, arid deliv-ered lectures on the physics and ethics of Aristotle. He was destined bv his i v , J father for the legal profession; but the impression produced on him by the fateof his friend Alexis, who was struck dead by lightning while walking by hisside on their road from Mansfield to Erfurt, uniting with the effect of his earlyreligious education, induced him to devote himself to the monastic life, and heentered the monastery of Augus
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