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... tion , happiness , and in short a whole crea- tion of the like imaginary fubftances . To these you may add the genies of nations , provinces , cities , high - ways , and the like allegorical beings . In devices of this nature one fees a ...
... tion , happiness , and in short a whole crea- tion of the like imaginary fubftances . To these you may add the genies of nations , provinces , cities , high - ways , and the like allegorical beings . In devices of this nature one fees a ...
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... tion a pinner or a night - rail , a petticoat or a manteau ; but will talk as gravely as a father of the church on the Vitta and Pe- plus , the Stola and Inftita . How would an old Roman laugh , were it poffible for him to fee the ...
... tion a pinner or a night - rail , a petticoat or a manteau ; but will talk as gravely as a father of the church on the Vitta and Pe- plus , the Stola and Inftita . How would an old Roman laugh , were it poffible for him to fee the ...
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... tion on the nature of rufts : I fhall only tell you there are two or three forts of them which are extremely beautiful in the eye of an antiquary , and preferve a coin better than the best artificial varnish . As for other kinds , á ...
... tion on the nature of rufts : I fhall only tell you there are two or three forts of them which are extremely beautiful in the eye of an antiquary , and preferve a coin better than the best artificial varnish . As for other kinds , á ...
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... tion of Venus , though in my opinion there is only the first of them that can aptly relate to her , which at the fame time agrees as well with Concord : And that this was a goddess who used to intereft herself in mar- riages , we may ...
... tion of Venus , though in my opinion there is only the first of them that can aptly relate to her , which at the fame time agrees as well with Concord : And that this was a goddess who used to intereft herself in mar- riages , we may ...
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... tion it carries in its fails . We find the fame device to exprefs the fame thought in several of the poets : as in Horace , when he speaks of the moderation to be used in a flowing fortune , and in Ovid when he reflects on his past ...
... tion it carries in its fails . We find the fame device to exprefs the fame thought in several of the poets : as in Horace , when he speaks of the moderation to be used in a flowing fortune , and in Ovid when he reflects on his past ...
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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