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Page 30
... writings , they would at least teach us more agreeably , and draw feveral over to the study of medals that would rather be instructed in verse than in profe . I am glad , fays Phi- lander , to hear you of this opinion , for to tell you ...
... writings , they would at least teach us more agreeably , and draw feveral over to the study of medals that would rather be instructed in verse than in profe . I am glad , fays Phi- lander , to hear you of this opinion , for to tell you ...
Page 32
... writing , by reason of the long prefaces and exordiums into which it often betrays an author . There is so much time taken up in ceremony , that before they enter on their fubject the dia- logue is half ended . To avoid the fault I have ...
... writing , by reason of the long prefaces and exordiums into which it often betrays an author . There is so much time taken up in ceremony , that before they enter on their fubject the dia- logue is half ended . To avoid the fault I have ...
Page 146
... writing fomething on a shield . We find this way of regiftring a Victory touched upon in Virgil , and Silius Italicus . Are cavo clypeum , magni geftamen Abantis , Poftibus adverfis figo , et rem carmine figno ; Eneas hæc de Danaïs ...
... writing fomething on a shield . We find this way of regiftring a Victory touched upon in Virgil , and Silius Italicus . Are cavo clypeum , magni geftamen Abantis , Poftibus adverfis figo , et rem carmine figno ; Eneas hæc de Danaïs ...
Page 163
... writings but never on their coins . Had we no other hiftories of the Roman Emperors , but those we find on their money , we should take them for the most virtuous race of Princes that mankind were ever bleffed with : Whereas , if we ...
... writings but never on their coins . Had we no other hiftories of the Roman Emperors , but those we find on their money , we should take them for the most virtuous race of Princes that mankind were ever bleffed with : Whereas , if we ...
Page 298
... writings are come down to our times ? In the fpace of two hundred years from our Saviour's birth , when there was fuch a multitude of writers in all kinds , how fmall is the number of authors that have made their way to the prefent age ...
... writings are come down to our times ? In the fpace of two hundred years from our Saviour's birth , when there was fuch a multitude of writers in all kinds , how fmall is the number of authors that have made their way to the prefent age ...
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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