Miscellaneous Works: In Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... fancy any charms in gold , but in the figures and infcriptions that adorn it . The intrinfic value of an old coin does not confift in its metal but its erudition . It is the Device that has raifed the fpecies , fo that at prefent an As ...
... fancy any charms in gold , but in the figures and infcriptions that adorn it . The intrinfic value of an old coin does not confift in its metal but its erudition . It is the Device that has raifed the fpecies , fo that at prefent an As ...
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... fancy it is this ufe of Medals that has recommended them to fe- . veral hiftory - painters , who perhaps without this . affiftance would have found it very difficult to have invented fuch an airy fpecies of beings , when they are ...
... fancy it is this ufe of Medals that has recommended them to fe- . veral hiftory - painters , who perhaps without this . affiftance would have found it very difficult to have invented fuch an airy fpecies of beings , when they are ...
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... fancy , if you please , that about a thousand years hence , fome profound author fhall write a learned treatise on the Habits of the present age , diftinguished into the following Titles and Chapters . Of the old British Trowser . Of ...
... fancy , if you please , that about a thousand years hence , fome profound author fhall write a learned treatise on the Habits of the present age , diftinguished into the following Titles and Chapters . Of the old British Trowser . Of ...
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... fancy they im- pofed upon me an Emperor or Empress at pleasure , rather than appear ignorant . up All this however is eafily learnt from Medals , fays Philander , where you may fee likewife the plans of many the moft confiderable ...
... fancy they im- pofed upon me an Emperor or Empress at pleasure , rather than appear ignorant . up All this however is eafily learnt from Medals , fays Philander , where you may fee likewife the plans of many the moft confiderable ...
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... fancy , fays Philander , has formerly gained upon feveral of your Medallifts , who were for hording up fuch pieces of money only as had been half confumed by time or ruft . There were no Coins pleased them more than those which had ...
... fancy , fays Philander , has formerly gained upon feveral of your Medallifts , who were for hording up fuch pieces of money only as had been half confumed by time or ruft . There were no Coins pleased them more than those which had ...
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