The United States Literary Gazette, Том 3Cummings, Hilliard & Company, 1826 |
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... objects than canvass , and works of theirs yet survive , to attest the perfection of the art . Were it not so , sceptical inquirers might as reasonably deny the wonderful excellence of Phidias , as of Apelles . But the broken relic of a ...
... objects than canvass , and works of theirs yet survive , to attest the perfection of the art . Were it not so , sceptical inquirers might as reasonably deny the wonderful excellence of Phidias , as of Apelles . But the broken relic of a ...
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... object of adoration ; temples erected for their worship ; statues of heroes translated to heaven , or of living men possessed of heroic or godlike attributes , such were the subjects , to which Grecian art was applied . Here was the ...
... object of adoration ; temples erected for their worship ; statues of heroes translated to heaven , or of living men possessed of heroic or godlike attributes , such were the subjects , to which Grecian art was applied . Here was the ...
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... object of the American editor . Professor John S. Popkin of Cambridge , was , to make the book a correct one . It had gone through so many editions , and each new one had repeated so many of the errors of the last , and made so many of ...
... object of the American editor . Professor John S. Popkin of Cambridge , was , to make the book a correct one . It had gone through so many editions , and each new one had repeated so many of the errors of the last , and made so many of ...
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... object de- cidedly to such inaccurate views of the case . On the sixty - first page are the following observations : " In hot weather , when the system is subjected to the relaxing influence of continued heat , a little brandy and water ...
... object de- cidedly to such inaccurate views of the case . On the sixty - first page are the following observations : " In hot weather , when the system is subjected to the relaxing influence of continued heat , a little brandy and water ...
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... objects of ex- change , they have no value . The value of things arises from exchange ; and the value of any particular article is estimated by the quantities of other arti- cles at large , which it will purchase . The price of an ...
... objects of ex- change , they have no value . The value of things arises from exchange ; and the value of any particular article is estimated by the quantities of other arti- cles at large , which it will purchase . The price of an ...
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