Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs: Discoverable in Modern Italy and SicilyVestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs, Discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily by John James Blunt, first published in 1823, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... probably differs little from the Utricularius of the ancients . II . The next purpose for which figures of the gods were employed , was to guard the entrances of houses : accordingly statues of Janus , of Cardea , of Forculus , were ...
... probably have observed that there is not a single bed near which , in addition to the crucifix , we do not see posted upon the wall , one or more pictures of a fa- vourite saint . The same is the case in pri- vate houses . I remember ...
... probably exhibited to the public of old in a similar manner : Vidi ego , ( says Tyndarus , in one of Plautus ' plays ) multa sæpe picta quæ Acherunti fierent Cruciamenta verum enimvero nulla adeoque est Acheruus Atque ubi ego fui in ...
... same order is observed in Plutarch's treatise of Isis and Osiris . ( Vide Gibbon , vol . v . p . 103 , note . ) A precedence thus given to the female deities in Egypt , would probably have its operation 48 OF THE VIRGIN .
... probably have its operation in Italy also ; a proposition of which no person will entertain much doubt who has observed the proportion which the gods of the Nile bear in every museum of Italian antiquities to those of Greece and Rome ...
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