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Baron Tenterden Charles Abbott

John Abercrombie

Tom Marcello, 1976
Académie Française

Institut de France, Paris. Photo by user Nitot / Wikimedia Commons.
Hannah Adams

(1755-1832) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
John Adams

John Adams (1735-1826)
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart
(Wikipedia)
John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-cwpbh-02619)
Joseph Addison

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Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Archimedes

René-Louis de Voyer d'Argenson

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Francis Atterbury

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Emperor Marcus Aurelius of Rome

Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Isaac Barrow

Published 1811
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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy

Benjamin Smith Barton

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Richard Baxter

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James Beattie

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Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

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Madame Leprince de Beaumont

Portrait anonyme peint sur ivoire, XVIIIe siècle. Collection particulière. Photo M. Urtado.
Cesare Beccaria

Jeremy Belknap

Wikimedia Commons.
From a portrait by Henry Sargent in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.
Saint Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino

Guido Bentivoglio

William Bentley

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Sir Francis Bernard

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Sir William Blackstone

Print by T. Hamilton Crawford after Joshua Reynolds, c1930 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-2536)
Jean Bodin

Nicolas Boileau Despréaux

Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743), Nicolas Boileau
Musée national du Château de Versailles, France.
Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke

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Thomas Browne

Jean de La Bruyère

Wikiépdia France
George Buchanan

George Buchanan. Frontispiece from George Buchanan; a biography (1906) by Donald Macmillan
Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

wikimedia commons - Portrait de Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon : François-Hubert Drouais (1727-1775) : Musée Buffon à Montbard
Edmund Burke

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Gilbert Burnet

Joseph Butler

Joseph Butler (1692-1752), Wikimedia Commons
Julius Caesar

public domain
Charles Alexandre de Calonne

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Jean Calvin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-72002)
Lazare Carnot

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Isaac Casaubon

Isaac Casaubon. Frontispiece from Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614 (1892) by Mark Pattison
Nicolas Caussin

William Ellery Channing

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Saint Charles Borromeo

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François Jean de Chastellux

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Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Earl Edward Hyde of Clarendon

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William Cobbett

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Sir Edward Coke

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Cadwallader D. Colden

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Johann Amos Comenius

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Philippe de Commynes

Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti Mirabeau

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, French Political Cartoon Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC2-3563)
Charles-Marie de La Condamine

Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

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Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet

Wikipédia France
Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
Thomas Corneille

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Hernán Cortés

Engraving by W. Holl; published by Charles Knight, Library of Congress
Abraham Cowley

Source: "International monthly magazine
of literature, art and science"
v.5, no. 2 (Feb. 1, 1852)
(Project Gutenberg)
Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier d'Agoty (1740-1786)
Alexander Cruden

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Ralph Cudworth

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William Cullen

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Richard Cumberland

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Charles Pelham Curtis

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Thomas Day

Clairwitch, 2005
H. A. S. [Henry Alexander Scammell] Dearborn

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Demosthenes

Roman copy of Greek original of 280 B.C.
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Denmark

Dannebrog. Photo by Per Palmkvist Knudsen / Wikimedia Commons.
Denis Diderot

Cassius Dio Cocceianus

M. Duhamel du Monceau

Jacques-Antoine Dulaure

Charles François Du Périer Dumouriez

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Peter Stephen Du Ponceau

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Timothy Dwight

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Laurence Echard

Bryan Edwards

published by John Stockdale on September 25, 1800
Charles Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
Andrew Ellicott

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Friedrich Engel

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Simon Episcopius

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Desiderius Erasmus

Robert Estienne

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Euclid

Engraved image of Euclid
Eusebius of Caesarea

Edward Everett

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Benito Jerónimo Feijoo

Juan Bernabé Palomino (1692-1777)
Adam Ferguson

Jean de La Fontaine

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Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

John Fortescue-Aland

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Jean Froissart

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Thomas Fuller

lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
John Gay

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Sir Geoffrey Gilbert

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William Godwin

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Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
John Gray

Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius - Portrait by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631. From
WikipediaFrancesco Guicciardini

Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn

Sir Matthew Hale

The Life & Death of Sir Matthew Hale (1682)
Marquis George Savile of Halifax

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Edmond Halley

Bust of Edmond Halley in the
Museum of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London
(Credit: Klaus-Dieter Keller, 2006)
Alexander Hamilton

Count Anthony Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
James Harris

James Harris. Frontispiece from Philological inquiries, in three parts (1781)
Thomas Hearne

Project Gutenberg's English Book Collectors, by William Younger Fletcher, published 1902.
William Heath

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Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Hippocrates

Peter Paul Rubens, engraving, 1638. From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
William Hull

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David Hume

from Wikipedia
Richard Hurd

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Thomas Hutchinson

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Charles Hutton

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Jethro Tull

Craig O'Neal. Dec. 11, 2007
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Marcus Junianus Justinus

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Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Lord Henry Home Kames

Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782), artist unknown
White Kennett

John Ker

Project Gutenberg's English Book Collectors, by William Younger Fletcher, published 1902.
Lord Peter King

Peter King, 1st Baron King of Ockham by Daniel De Coning. Wikimedia Commons.
King Louis XV

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Andrew Kippis

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John Thornton Kirkland

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John Knox

Vicesimus Knox

William Knox

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette

Reproduction of painting by
Edward Percy Moran, 1909
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-4526)
Jacques Laffitte

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Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande

Antoine Houdar de La Motte

Pieter Langendijk

Engraving by C. Pronk/J. Houbraken
François-Alexandre-Frédéric La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

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Charles Lee

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Antoine Le Grand

Library Company of Philadelphia

Franklin opens the first subscription library in Philadelphia. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-D418-28058)
Carl von Linné

From "Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Scientists," Elbert Hubbard, 1916 (Project Gutenberg)
Edward Livingston

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Livy

from Wikipedia
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Pierre Lombard

Detail from Fresco in Cassino Massino, Rome by Philipp Veit, 1817-27.
Musée du Louvre

Photo by Thomas Mc Gowan / Flickr.
Lucan

Nuremberg Chronicle also known as Schedelsche Weltchronik
Lucian of Samosata

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Titus Lucretius Carus

Edmund Ludlow

Baron George Lyttelton

Abbé de Mably

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Scipione Maffei

Nicolas Malebranche

wikimedia commons
Clément Marot

John Marshall

Massachusetts

Old State House, Boston. Photo by Daniel Schwen / Wikimedia Commons.
General Court (Massachusetts)

Massachusetts State House. Photo by Paul Keleher / Flickr.
Cotton Mather

from Wikipedia
Maupertuis

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Jonathan Mayhew

Jonathan Mayhew. Frontispiece from Memoir of the Life and Writings of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. (1838) by Alden Bradford.
John Milton

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Molière

Wikipédia France
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Baron Charles de Secondat de Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans Montpensier

Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier; Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Johann Lorenz Mosheim

Sir Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Friedrich Nicolai

William Ogilvie

Photo by Jonathan Oldenbuck / Wikimedia Commons.
Abraham Ortelius

Abraham Ortelius (cropped). Wikimedia Commons.
Ovid

Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Patrick

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Petronius Arbiter

Pindar

Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC,
Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
William Pitt

William Pitt the Elder ~ History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
Project Gutenberg
Platina

"By Piero della Francesca Vatican Gallery, Rome"
Print published 1828
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Plato

Roman copy after Greek original by Silanion, 2nd cent.
(Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2007
Titus Maccius Plautus

Plutarch

Polybius

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Abbé Prévost

Wikipédia France
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Joseph Priestley

wikipedia
Ptolemy

public domain - see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ptolemaeus.jpg
Samuel Purchas

François Quesnay

Josiah Quincy

Caricature of Josiah Quincy III
by William Charles, circa 1812-1813
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ppmsc-05876)
François Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Ann Ward Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
David Ramsay

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Jean François Regnard

Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard

Thomas Reid

Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz

Pierre Richelet

Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu

Sculpture by Francesco Schiaffino, 1748,
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Duc François de La Rochefoucauld

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Duc Henri de Rohan

Charles Rollin

Sculpture by Félix Lecomte, 1789,
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Benjamin Rumford

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Benjamin Rush

Richard Rush

Richard Rush (1780-1859)
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Juan de Jáuregui.
Via
WikipediaSallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Maurice Saxe

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Scanderbeg

Monsieur Scarron

wikimedia commons
Friedrich Schiller

Johann Schröder

Marquise Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné

wikipedia
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper of Shaftesbury

History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
Project Gutenberg
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Granville Sharp

John Shebbeare

Adam Smith

Tobias George Smollett

from Wikipedia
Sophocles

Edmund Spenser

Madame de Staël

Madame de Staël as Corinne by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1808.
Sir Richard Steele

Strabo

Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Cornelius Tacitus

Torquado Tasso

wikimedia commons
Jeremy Taylor

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Gentleman of the Inner-Temple

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Sir William Temple

Image from Sir William Temple upon the gardens of Epicurus, with other XVIIth century garden essays (1908) by Sir William Temple (1628-1699) et al.
Terence

Royal Society (Great Britain)

Coat of Arms of the Royal Society. Photo by user Kaihsu Tai / English Wikipedia.
Charles Thomson

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William Thornton

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Marquis Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy

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United States Congress

House of Representatives and Central Dome, U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C. Photo by Andreas Praefcke / Wikimedia Commons.
United States Military Academy

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Zacharias Ursinus

Zacharias Ursinus (1534—1583)
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Constantin-François Volney

Voltaire

Horace Walpole

Thomas Warton

George Washington

Benjamin Waterhouse

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Daniel Webster

John Adams Whipple / Boston Public Library
Noah Webster

From Wikipedia Commons
Edward Winslow

From "History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
Gutenberg Project
John Winthrop

John Winthrop (1588-1649)
William Wirt

Portrait by Charles de St Memrin (Library of Congress)
John Witherspoon

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Christian Wolff

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Xenophon

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Pliny the Younger

Wolfgang Sauber
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