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... give to Titus old Vefpafian's due . Ambition figh'd . She found it vain to trust The faithlefs column , and the crumbling buft ; Huge moles whofe fhadow ftretch'd from fhore to fhore , Their ruins perish'd , and their place no more ...
... give to Titus old Vefpafian's due . Ambition figh'd . She found it vain to trust The faithlefs column , and the crumbling buft ; Huge moles whofe fhadow ftretch'd from fhore to fhore , Their ruins perish'd , and their place no more ...
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... give us , fays Eugenius , I must tell you what I believe furprises all beginners as well as myself . We are apt to think your me- dallifts a little fantastical in the different prices they fet upon their coins , without any regard to ...
... give us , fays Eugenius , I must tell you what I believe furprises all beginners as well as myself . We are apt to think your me- dallifts a little fantastical in the different prices they fet upon their coins , without any regard to ...
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... give me leave , fays Cynthio , to reject this last use of medals . I do not think it worth while to trouble myself with a perfon's name or face that receives all his reputation from the mint , and would never have been known in the ...
... give me leave , fays Cynthio , to reject this last use of medals . I do not think it worth while to trouble myself with a perfon's name or face that receives all his reputation from the mint , and would never have been known in the ...
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... give a very great light to history , in confirming fuch paffages as are true in old authors , in fettling such as are told after different man- ners , and in recording fuch as have been omitted . In this cafe a cabinet of medals is a ...
... give a very great light to history , in confirming fuch paffages as are true in old authors , in fettling such as are told after different man- ners , and in recording fuch as have been omitted . In this cafe a cabinet of medals is a ...
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... - bait- ing ? Yet it is the fixing of these great periods that gives a man the first rank in the republic of letters , and recommends him to year the the world for a person of various reading and profound of ANCIENT MEDALS . 15.
... - bait- ing ? Yet it is the fixing of these great periods that gives a man the first rank in the republic of letters , and recommends him to year the the world for a person of various reading and profound of ANCIENT MEDALS . 15.
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Ægyptus againſt ancient Apoſtles becauſe Befides chriftians Claud Claudian confefs confideration Creech cuſtoms dæmons defcription defign Difciples Dryden Emperor enemy fame fancy fatire fays Cynthio fays Eugenius fays Philander fecond feen fenfe feveral fhall fhew fhort fide figure fince firft firſt fome France French ftand ftill ftrength fubject fuch fufferings fuppofe greateſt hand hath heathen himſelf hiſtory honour infcription Irenæus itſelf Judæa King laft laſt learned lived loft mentioned miracles modern medals moſt muſt myſelf obferve occafion old coins Ovid paffage Pagan Parthia peace perfons philofophers pleaſe poets prefent preſerved publiſhed raiſed reaſon religion reprefented rifing Roman Rome S. C. Reverſe Saviour Saviour's hiftory ſee ſeen ſeveral ſhall ſhould ſhows Silius Italicus Spanish monarchy ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſtill Tertullian thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion Trajan uſe veftes verfe Virg Virgil