Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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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 mony only as was current among the Greeks and La- tins . There are feveral 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 mony only as was current among the Greeks and La- tins . There are feveral of them that ...
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... tell you . what I believe furprises all beginners as well as myfelf . We are apt to think your Medallifts a little fantaftical in the different prices they fet . upon their Coins , without any regard to the an- cient value or the metal ...
... tell you . what I believe furprises all beginners as well as myfelf . We are apt to think your Medallifts a little fantaftical in the different prices they fet . upon their Coins , without any regard to the an- cient value or the metal ...
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... tell you , that you fee on Medals not on- ly the names and perfons of Emperors , Kings , Confuls , Pro - confuls , Prætors , and the like cha- racters of importance , but of fome of the Poets , and and of feveral who had won the prizes ...
... tell you , that you fee on Medals not on- ly the names and perfons of Emperors , Kings , Confuls , Pro - confuls , Prætors , and the like cha- racters of importance , but of fome of the Poets , and and of feveral who had won the prizes ...
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... tell you that the Veftis Trabeata was of fuch a particular fafhion , Scaliger is for another , and Dacier thinks them both in the wrong . Thefe are , fays Cynthio , I fuppofe the names of three Roman taylors : for is it poffible men of ...
... tell you that the Veftis Trabeata was of fuch a particular fafhion , Scaliger is for another , and Dacier thinks them both in the wrong . Thefe are , fays Cynthio , I fuppofe the names of three Roman taylors : for is it poffible men of ...
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... tell you that things of this importance muft 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 , fhould he ...
... tell you that things of this importance muft 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 , fhould he ...
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