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mentioned in the First, and has introduced other additional topics of Antiquity. He has, particularly, enlarged the obfervations on Language; and has endeavoured to give as explicit an account of the Inquiry, as coud be comprehended in the Profpectus of a Specimen. In the Third part are contained fome further obfervations on the extent and use of the Study of Antiquities, with the fentiments of the Comte de CAYLUS on the fame fubject.

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The study of

The pleasure arifing from the contemplation of Antiquities in general Antiquities conducive to elegance in the Arts -in fome of its branches tends immediately, in all ultimately to the illuftration of ancient Manners.

CLASSICAL ANTIQUITIES: POLITICAL; Connection between the Arts and Manners of a People between Language and Manners influence on each other. MONUMENTAL; Architecture-Paintings-Marbles and Coins.

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BRITISH

ANTIQUITIES:

POLITICAL and NATIONAL; Juridical

Poetical. PROVINCIAL and MONUMENTAL; Caftles Monafteries Churches, &e.

Connection between the feveral Branches in

the Study of Antiquities

arifing from fuch an union

Advantages
Conclufion.

ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS: I. On local attachments II. On Mythology, its connection with the history of ancient nations, with Morals, Phyfics, &c. III. On the comparative character

and progress of the Arts;

of Archi

tecture and Mufic IV. On the style of ancient and of modern Epitaphs-V. On the origin of Languages, efpecially of the Greek; and on the utility of a grammatical, Etymological Analyfis and investigation of their first principles.

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STUDY OF ANTIQUITIES.

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HE mind of Man always active and inquifitive seems feldom to exert itself with more pleasure than in retracing the memory of thofe Ages which are paft, and of those events and characters, which are NEVER TO RETURN. There is an involuntary attachment to that which is irrecoverably fnatched from our prefence, and removed beyond the reach of our hopes and wishes, which we daily experience, while we view the monuments of thofe, who have paffed, perhaps but few years, to the IRREVERSIBLE deftiny of human nature: and the fenfations, which we feel are feemingly excited not more by the fuggeftion of the general lot of humanity, than by the reflection that they are GONE FOR EVER.

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