Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... French , Ita- lian , and English appear in the fame drefs . I have fometimes however been very much distasted at this way of writing , by reafon of the long Pre- faces and exordiums into which it often betrays an author . There is fo ...
... French , Ita- lian , and English appear in the fame drefs . I have fometimes however been very much distasted at this way of writing , by reafon of the long Pre- faces and exordiums into which it often betrays an author . There is fo ...
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... French Medals either the religion , cuftom , or habits of the French nation . You fee on fome of them the Crofs of our Saviour , and on others Hercules ' his Club . In one you have an Angel , and in another a Mercury . I fancy , fays ...
... French Medals either the religion , cuftom , or habits of the French nation . You fee on fome of them the Crofs of our Saviour , and on others Hercules ' his Club . In one you have an Angel , and in another a Mercury . I fancy , fays ...
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... French colony in America ? The Romans made ufe of this type in allufion to one of their own cuftoms at the fending out of a co- lony . But for the French , a Ram , a Hog , or an Elephant , would have been every whit as figni- ficant an ...
... French colony in America ? The Romans made ufe of this type in allufion to one of their own cuftoms at the fending out of a co- lony . But for the French , a Ram , a Hog , or an Elephant , would have been every whit as figni- ficant an ...
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... French as of the Eng lish , -quos opimus Fallere et effugere eft triumphus : I could mention a few other faults , or at leaft what I take for fuch . But at the same time must be forced to allow , that this Series of Medals is the most ...
... French as of the Eng lish , -quos opimus Fallere et effugere eft triumphus : I could mention a few other faults , or at leaft what I take for fuch . But at the same time must be forced to allow , that this Series of Medals is the most ...
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... French term of art , which gives us the view of a head , that , in my opinion , has fomething in it very majeftic , and at the fame time fuits beft with the dimenfions of a Medal . Befides that it fhows the nofe and eyebrows , with the ...
... French term of art , which gives us the view of a head , that , in my opinion , has fomething in it very majeftic , and at the fame time fuits beft with the dimenfions of a Medal . Befides that it fhows the nofe and eyebrows , with the ...
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