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... use of the liberty you 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 ...
... use of the liberty you 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 ...
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... uses of old coins . The first and 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 ...
... uses of old coins . The first and 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 ...
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... 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 world had there not been fuch things as medals . A ...
... 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 world had there not been fuch things as medals . A ...
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... use , fays Cynthio , that in my opinion contributes rather to make a man learned than wife , and is neither capable of pleafing the under- standing or imagination . I know there are feveral fupercilious critics that will treat an author ...
... use , fays Cynthio , that in my opinion contributes rather to make a man learned than wife , and is neither capable of pleafing the under- standing or imagination . I know there are feveral fupercilious critics that will treat an author ...
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... use of the fhoulder - knot . " " Such a one mistaken in his account of the furtout , & c . " 66 I must confefs , fays Eugenius , interrupt- ing him , the knowledge of these affairs is in itself very little improving , but as it is ...
... use of the fhoulder - knot . " " Such a one mistaken in his account of the furtout , & c . " 66 I must confefs , fays Eugenius , interrupt- ing him , the knowledge of these affairs is in itself very little improving , but as it is ...
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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