Miscellaneous Works: In Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... mean materials , fhould appear ri-- diculous to those that have not taken the pains to examine it . T Eugenius was very attentive to what Philanders faid on the fubject of Medals . He was one that endeavoured rather to be agreeable than ...
... mean materials , fhould appear ri-- diculous to those that have not taken the pains to examine it . T Eugenius was very attentive to what Philanders faid on the fubject of Medals . He was one that endeavoured rather to be agreeable than ...
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... means a man would comprehend better and remember much longer the fhape of an ancient garment , than he poffibly can from the help of tedious quotations and defcriptions . The defign , fays Philander , might be very useful , but after ...
... means a man would comprehend better and remember much longer the fhape of an ancient garment , than he poffibly can from the help of tedious quotations and defcriptions . The defign , fays Philander , might be very useful , but after ...
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... mean time , fays Philander , you find on Medals every thing that you could meet with in your magazine of antiquities , and when you have built your arfe nals , wardrobes , and facrifties , it is from Medals that you muft fetch their ...
... mean time , fays Philander , you find on Medals every thing that you could meet with in your magazine of antiquities , and when you have built your arfe nals , wardrobes , and facrifties , it is from Medals that you muft fetch their ...
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... means that Mon- fieur Vaillant has difembroiled a hiftory that was loft to the world before his time , and out of a fhort collection of Medals has given us a chroni- cle of the Kings of Syria . For this too is an ad- vantage Medals have ...
... means that Mon- fieur Vaillant has difembroiled a hiftory that was loft to the world before his time , and out of a fhort collection of Medals has given us a chroni- cle of the Kings of Syria . For this too is an ad- vantage Medals have ...
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... mean Courage by the figure of Virtue , as well as by the word itself . Courage was esteemed the greatest perfection among them , and therefore went under the name of Virtue in general , as the modern Italians give the . fame name on the ...
... mean Courage by the figure of Virtue , as well as by the word itself . Courage was esteemed the greatest perfection among them , and therefore went under the name of Virtue in general , as the modern Italians give the . fame name on the ...
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