The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Volume 4William Durell & Company, 1811 |
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... body than I could have imagined . You have shown us all conditions , sexes and ages , emperors and empresses , men and children , gods and wrestlers . Nay you have con- jured up persons that exist no where else but on old coins , and ...
... body than I could have imagined . You have shown us all conditions , sexes and ages , emperors and empresses , men and children , gods and wrestlers . Nay you have con- jured up persons that exist no where else but on old coins , and ...
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... body of history . It was indeed the best way in the world to perpetuate the memory of great actions , thus to coin out the life of an emperor , and to put every great exploit into the mint . It was a kind of printing , before the art ...
... body of history . It was indeed the best way in the world to perpetuate the memory of great actions , thus to coin out the life of an emperor , and to put every great exploit into the mint . It was a kind of printing , before the art ...
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Joseph Addison Thomas Tickell. to the emperor himself , or to the whole body of a Roman senate . Besides that a coin is in no danger of having its characters altered by copiers and trans- cribers . This I must confess , says Cynthio ...
Joseph Addison Thomas Tickell. to the emperor himself , or to the whole body of a Roman senate . Besides that a coin is in no danger of having its characters altered by copiers and trans- cribers . This I must confess , says Cynthio ...
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... body from the weapons of an enemy , it very aptly shadows out to us the resolution or con- tinence of the emperor , which made him proof to all the attacks of fortune or of pleasure . In the next place , the figure of the shield being ...
... body from the weapons of an enemy , it very aptly shadows out to us the resolution or con- tinence of the emperor , which made him proof to all the attacks of fortune or of pleasure . In the next place , the figure of the shield being ...
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... body put the muses under a kind of contribution , to furnish out whatever they have in them that bears any re- lation to coins . Though they taught us but the same things that might be learnt in other writings , they would at least ...
... body put the muses under a kind of contribution , to furnish out whatever they have in them that bears any re- lation to coins . Though they taught us but the same things that might be learnt in other writings , they would at least ...
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