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Example sentences for "attached himself"

  • Having left Gian Bellini, he attached himself to Giorgione, and in the tone of his colours, and the fulness of his forms, imitated him better than any other artist.

  • He attached himself wholly to the style of Gianpaolo, as well as certain foreigners sprung from the same school, such as Girolamo Grifoni, in whose productions we seem to trace the copy of a copy of the style of Paul.

  • In order better to oppose his great enemy Vittoria, he attached himself to another architect, who possessed much influence, named Girolamo Campagna, the disciple of Sansovino; and he moreover enjoyed the favour of Tintoretto.

  • After the battle of Philippi he attached himself to M.

  • The ablest and most energetic of his colleagues, Lord Carteret (afterwards Granville), attached himself specially to the king, and sought to maintain himself in power by his special favour and by brilliant achievements in diplomacy.

  • In order to do this he attached himself entirely to the Whig party, though he refused to place himself at the disposal of its leaders.

  • He attached himself to the persecuted heiress of the throne, and entitled himself to her gratitude and confidence.

  • He attached himself to Cromwell while the fortunes of Cromwell flourished.

  • Catholic priests of the diocese, he attached himself to the Irvingites, and was with them excommunicated.

  • He attached himself as closely as possible to the prevailing predestinationist orthodoxy, but only externally.

  • He renounced the principles of Cesari, who had instructed him for many years; and after having diligently studied colouring at Venice, he attached himself to the school of the Caracci, but more particularly to Albano.

  • He attached himself to the popular party, and his good taste, great tact, and pleasing manners contributed, together with his talents, to insure his popularity.

  • He attached himself to the service of Leo X.

  • When he was about twenty-one years of age, he attached himself to the person of Cardinal Aquaviva, with whom he visited Rome.

  • He attached himself to Bonaparte at an early period, and accompanied him to Egypt, and was made by him Governor of the Ionian Islands.

  • Exiled by the Second Restoration he attached himself to the Government of 1830, and was twice Minister of War, and President of the Council.

  • Attached himself to the Government of Louis-Philippe and frequently took part in important debates in the House of Peers.

  • Attached himself to the person of Louis XVIII.

  • Upon the call of troops from North Carolina for the defence of Charleston, he attached himself to Col.

  • In January 1777, he attached himself to the command of Captain William Chronicle, and marched to the relief of the post of Ninety Six, in Abbeville county, S.

  • He attached himself to the Whigs, in whose interest he wrote several bitter and vituperative pamphlets.

  • Entering Parliament in 1640 he at first supported popular measures, but, on the outbreak of the Civil War, attached himself to the King, and was the author of many of his state papers.

  • He attached himself to the Court as a kind of voluntary laureate, and in the reign of James I.

  • He attached himself to John Wilkes, on a visit to whom, at Boulogne, he d.

  • Labienus, the ablest of them, had but to desert Caesar, to commit blunder upon blunder, and to ruin the cause to which he attached himself.

  • Cicero was certainly speaking of a time which preceded Sylla's dictatorship, for Caesar left Rome immediately after it, and when he came back he attached himself to the political party to which Cicero was most opposed.

  • It cannot be said of Cicero that he was blind to the faults of the party to which he attached himself.

  • In September 1888 he was elected a member of the first chamber of the Riksdag, where he attached himself to the conservative protectionist party, over which, from the first, he exercised great authority.

  • After Caesar's assassination he attached himself to Brutus and Cassius, and in 43 was condemned by the lex Pedia as having been implicated in the plot.

  • It seemed as though from his youth he had been afraid of following the errors of his compatriots, for he attached himself to no special school, but, strange to say, was his own teacher in the Talmud.

  • He attached himself to Manasseh, and sang his praise in Latin verses, on which account he was attacked yet more violently, because he had put the Jewish faith on an equality with the Christian.

  • Instead of betaking himself to Palestine as he had intended, Delmedigo traveled to Constantinople; here also he attached himself to the circle of the Karaites, and at last passed through Wallachia and Moldavia to Poland.

  • Jacques de Lanode, Sieur de la Fin, was a petty Burgundian nobleman, whose spirit of intrigue was perpetually involving those to whom he attached himself in cabals and factions.

  • It was to Duke Francesco he attached himself on his return.


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