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Page 7
... as have made a noise in the world , fays Philander , you have on medals a long lift of heathen deities , distinguished from each other by B 4 their their proper titles and ornaments . You fee the copies of ANCIENT MEDALS . 7.
... as have made a noise in the world , fays Philander , you have on medals a long lift of heathen deities , distinguished from each other by B 4 their their proper titles and ornaments . You fee the copies of ANCIENT MEDALS . 7.
Page 29
... heathen divinities appear generally in the fame dress among the poets that they wear in medals . I must confefs , I believe both the one and the other took the mode from the ancient Greek ftatuaries . It will not perhaps be an improper ...
... heathen divinities appear generally in the fame dress among the poets that they wear in medals . I must confefs , I believe both the one and the other took the mode from the ancient Greek ftatuaries . It will not perhaps be an improper ...
Page 61
... heathens made choice of thefe lights as apt fymbols of Eter- nity , becaufe , contrary to all fublunary beings , though they seem to perish every night , they renew themselves every morning . • Catul . Soles occidere et redire poffunt ...
... heathens made choice of thefe lights as apt fymbols of Eter- nity , becaufe , contrary to all fublunary beings , though they seem to perish every night , they renew themselves every morning . • Catul . Soles occidere et redire poffunt ...
Page 174
... heathen god . If posterity takes its notions of us from our medals , they must fancy one of our Kings paid a great devotion to Minerva , that another was a profeffed worshipper of Apollo , or at beft that our whole religion was a ...
... heathen god . If posterity takes its notions of us from our medals , they must fancy one of our Kings paid a great devotion to Minerva , that another was a profeffed worshipper of Apollo , or at beft that our whole religion was a ...
Page 297
... heathen world as false , frivolous , and improbable . may IV . We further obferve that the or- dinary practice of magic in thofe times , with the many pretended prodigies , divinations , apparitions , and local miracles among the heathens ...
... heathen world as false , frivolous , and improbable . may IV . We further obferve that the or- dinary practice of magic in thofe times , with the many pretended prodigies , divinations , apparitions , and local miracles among the heathens ...
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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