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... tell you the different ages of it , by its colour . They are poffeffed with a kind of learned avarice , and are for getting together hoards of fuch money only as was current among the Greeks and Latins . There are several of them that ...
... tell you the different ages of it , by its colour . They are poffeffed with a kind of learned avarice , and are for getting together hoards of fuch money only as was current among the Greeks and Latins . There are several of them that ...
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... 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 the ancient value or the metal , of ...
... 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 the ancient value or the metal , of ...
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... tell you , that you fee on medals not only the names and perfons of Emperors , Kings , Confuls , Pro - confuls , Prætors , and the like characters of impor-- tance , but of fome of the poets , and of several who had won the prizes at ...
... tell you , that you fee on medals not only the names and perfons of Emperors , Kings , Confuls , Pro - confuls , Prætors , and the like characters of impor-- tance , but of fome of the poets , and of several who had won the prizes at ...
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... , but after what models would you work ? Sigonius , for example , will tell you that the Veftis Trabeata was of fuch a particular fashion , Scaliger Vefiis of ANCIENT MEDALS . If write a learned treatise on the habits of the ...
... , but after what models would you work ? Sigonius , for example , will tell you that the Veftis Trabeata was of fuch a particular fashion , Scaliger Vefiis of ANCIENT MEDALS . If write a learned treatise on the habits of the ...
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... tell you that things of this importance must not be taken on truft ; you ought to learn them among the claffic authors and at the foun- tain - head . Pray confider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters , should he ...
... tell you that things of this importance must not be taken on truft ; you ought to learn them among the claffic authors and at the foun- tain - head . Pray confider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters , should he ...
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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