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... most of those disadvan- tages that can render a fcience ridiculous , to fuch as are not well verfed in it . No- thing is more easy than to represent as im- pertinences any parts of learning that have no immediate relation to the ...
... most of those disadvan- tages that can render a fcience ridiculous , to fuch as are not well verfed in it . No- thing is more easy than to represent as im- pertinences any parts of learning that have no immediate relation to the ...
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... most obvious one , fays Philander , is the fhewing us the faces of all the great perfons of antiquity . A cabi- net of medals is a collection of pictures in miniature . Juvenal calls them very humo- rously , Concifum argentum in titulos ...
... most obvious one , fays Philander , is the fhewing us the faces of all the great perfons of antiquity . A cabi- net of medals is a collection of pictures in miniature . Juvenal calls them very humo- rously , Concifum argentum in titulos ...
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... most probable fashions . To enlarge the defign , I would have another room for the old Roman inftru- ments of war , where you might see the Pilum and the fhield , the eagles , enfigns , helmets , battering rams and trophies , in a word ...
... most probable fashions . To enlarge the defign , I would have another room for the old Roman inftru- ments of war , where you might see the Pilum and the fhield , the eagles , enfigns , helmets , battering rams and trophies , in a word ...
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... most valuable antiquity in Italy , notwithstanding it is fo entire . The fame kind of fancy , fays Philander , has formerly gained upon feveral of your medallifts , who were for hoarding up fuch pieces of money only as had been half con ...
... most valuable antiquity in Italy , notwithstanding it is fo entire . The fame kind of fancy , fays Philander , has formerly gained upon feveral of your medallifts , who were for hoarding up fuch pieces of money only as had been half con ...
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... most open to , the honours that he paid to his children , wives , predeceffors , friends or collegues , with the like particularities only to be met with on medals , are certainly not a little pleafing to that inquifitive temper which ...
... most open to , the honours that he paid to his children , wives , predeceffors , friends or collegues , with the like particularities only to be met with on medals , are certainly not a little pleafing to that inquifitive temper which ...
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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