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When he arrived in Rome he was received with great kindnefs and diftinftion by the Pope, and as he found many hours, when the duties of his em - ploy did not engage his attention, he painted many portraits in Home of digfiified perfons after the ex - ample of Rubens during his em • bafly at Madrid.
Anecdotes of eminent painters in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 1782
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Puts to death thofe employed in an em - bafly to Sylla, 439.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1781
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G baffy, bafly; which was, to fiipport the Romlfli religion, then fad declining in that king - dom, on account of the intolerable cruelties of Cardinal Betoun.
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And thefe expedations were ftill heightened by an crii - bafly fent from Paolo Guinigi Lord of Lucca to the Signiory of Florence, to complain of the depre - dations made by Fortebraccio, and to entreat them not to join their enemy in making war upon a neigh - bouring State, which had always lived in ftriét amity with them .. '
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She was difpleafed with the em* bafly he bad fent to the proteflant princes of Germafiy, and highly offended at the favour - able exprcflions he daily threw out in favour of popery.
A General History of Scotland from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time 1768
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