Michael for the King of France, and many other holy families[46] and devotional subjects, which neither Vasari nor his other biographers have fully enumerated.
Valeria, with such talent, that Orlandi complains of the silence of biographers respecting him.
His biographers do not mention his literary attainments; and, if we were to judge from his letter just cited, and now in the Museo Borgia, we might consider him grossly illiterate.
The phrases used by the biographers are lingua francigena (1 Cel.
The biographers assert that Francis was nourished in worldly vanity and insolence.
None of Catharine's biographers fail to relate wonderful instances of her healing power.
His biographers have with one accord set down the statement that the boy showed no promise in his early years.
Gasparini, afterward one of the biographers of Wagner.
The truth is, that most of the biographers never heard the symphony performed.
The biographers of Wagner have agreed to disagree about this symphony, even the usually accurate Mr. Finck calling it a work in C minor.
Mr. Praeger says: "Future biographers can no longer ignobly treat the patriotism of Wagner by striving to whitewash or gloss over the part he played during these sad days.
All his biographers are agreed that Thackeray was honestly fond of mundane advantages.
After his marriage it cannot be said that he liked the society of ladies; in fact, it was just what he did not like, though one of his biographers says otherwise.
That is why hisbiographers were so ready to believe that the letter was addressed to the lady with the romantic name and identified with one of his most romantic works.
One of his biographers thus relates of him: "Abercrombie from a fall down stairs in the dark, died at the age of eighty, and was buried at St. Pancras.
Although Muir and other biographers of Mua¸Yammad have argued that Islam was originally designed for the Arabs alone, and made no claim to universal acceptance, their assertion is contradicted by the unequivocal testimony of the Koran itself.
Some further account of them may be interesting to the reader, especially as the anecdotes related by their biographers throw many curious sidelights on the manners of the time.
Leonardo intended to make an excursion secretly from Rome to Naples, although so far as has hitherto been known, his biographers never allude to it.
None of Archimedes' biographers --not even the diligent Mazzucchelli, mentions any version in which Cato is named.
Vasari and other early biographers give us a very superficial and far from accurate picture of Leonardo's private life.
Both his biographers labour to describe his power as a debater, but in truth there must have been something indescribable about it.
Macaulay has given to the usual complaint which distorts the vision of most biographers the name of lues Boswelliana.
Other biographers had given excellent memoirs of men considered in relation to the chief historical currents of the time.
During these years, however, no less important a personal event than his marriage was by earlier biographers supposed to have occurred.
It is thought, by some biographers of these inventors, that Newcomen was employed by Savery in making the more intricate forgings of his engine.
As to your private life, many biographers contrive to make public as much of it as possible.
These biographers fight terribly among themselves, and vainly prolong the memory of 'old unhappy far-off things, and sorrows long ago.
Of Henrietta's childhood there is little to record; as one of her biographers sadly remarks, her troubles began before she could know them, for she was not a year old when her noble-hearted father perished by the knife of Ravaillac.
The inglorious escapade of his military career, at which he himself has poked unspeakable fun, and for which not even his most enthusiastic biographers have any excuse, was soon ended.
Not even his most enthusiastic biographers have attempted to palliate, save with half-hearted facetiousness, his inglorious desertion of the cause which he had espoused.
Of the boyhood of Daniel Boone, one of hisbiographers gives the following account.
Daniel Boone's biographers all agree that it was about this time when he first began to make long excursions toward the West; but it is difficult to fix exactly the date of his first long journey through the woods in this direction.
This is the first time the advent of Daniel Boon to the western wilds has been mentioned by historians, or by the several biographers of that distinguished pioneer and hunter.
It is an error continually made by the biographers of Columbus that the purpose of Prince Henry's explorations down the coast of Africa was to find a sea road to the West Indies by way of the East.
One of his biographers says of Lincoln that there is nothing in his whole career which calls for explanation in other than a purely natural and human way.
One of his biographers says that there is nothing in the life or work of Lincoln which cannot be explained without reference to any supernatural influence or power.
One of our latest biographers says that a scientific historian is always suspicious of dramatic events.
Aubrey, a gossiping chronicler of the next generation, says he was a butcher, and some biographers assert that he was a glover.
Geoffrey Chaucer was born at London about the year 1328: as to the exact date, we waive all the discussion in which his biographers have engaged, and consider this fixed as the most probable time.
A satirical reference to Sir Thomas in one of his plays,[30] leads us to think that there is some truth in the story, although certain of his biographers have denied it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "biographers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
