An Essay on the Study of Antiquities..D. Prince, and J. Cooke; J. and J. Fletcher; also by P. Elmsly, B. White, T. Payne, and Son; London., 1782 - Antiquities - 142 pages |
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... learned writers of the age , MILTON , CLARENDON , & c . They were formed on the imitation of the best ancient claffic authors ; and were , then , thought more fuitable to the gravity , and fimplicity of historical narration , than the ...
... learned writers of the age , MILTON , CLARENDON , & c . They were formed on the imitation of the best ancient claffic authors ; and were , then , thought more fuitable to the gravity , and fimplicity of historical narration , than the ...
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... antient PAINTING , in their BAS - RELIEFS , their MARBLES and COINS . The indefatigable spirit , with which Men Fontanini " de Antiquitatibus Horta . " p . xix : of of learned curiofity have conducted their re- fearches after the.
... antient PAINTING , in their BAS - RELIEFS , their MARBLES and COINS . The indefatigable spirit , with which Men Fontanini " de Antiquitatibus Horta . " p . xix : of of learned curiofity have conducted their re- fearches after the.
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Thomas Burgess. of learned curiofity have conducted their re- fearches after the remaining monuments of Antiquity , ( in the purfuit of which the English , by the general consent of foreigners , have eminently diftinguished themselves ...
Thomas Burgess. of learned curiofity have conducted their re- fearches after the remaining monuments of Antiquity , ( in the purfuit of which the English , by the general consent of foreigners , have eminently diftinguished themselves ...
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... learned civilian , ( one who perhaps owed the folid reputation , which his writings have acquired him , to uniting with his profef- fional knowledge the most accurate and ex- tenfive claffical erudition , ) that the many great ...
... learned civilian , ( one who perhaps owed the folid reputation , which his writings have acquired him , to uniting with his profef- fional knowledge the most accurate and ex- tenfive claffical erudition , ) that the many great ...
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... learned Antiquary , the Scho- lar , and the Critic , on account of their ufual accuracy and purity of Language . TAYLOR obferves ( p . 19. ) that the Ci- vilians hold the Language of the Digests or Pandects to be so pure , that the ...
... learned Antiquary , the Scho- lar , and the Critic , on account of their ufual accuracy and purity of Language . TAYLOR obferves ( p . 19. ) that the Ci- vilians hold the Language of the Digests or Pandects to be so pure , that the ...
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Page 10 - The lonians added to its original simplicity an elegance which has excited the universal admiration of posterity. The .Corinthians, a rich and luxurious people, not contented with former improvements, extended the art to the very verge of vicious refinement ; and thus (so connected in their origin are the arts, so similar in their progress and revolutions) the same genius produced those three characters of style in architecture which Dionysius of Halicarnassus, one of the most judicious critics of...
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