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... mean their Engraved Gems . It may with truth be asserted that there are few remains of ancient art so replete with grace and beauty as the engraved gems of antiquity ; and when we take into consideration the important uses they have ...
... mean their Engraved Gems . It may with truth be asserted that there are few remains of ancient art so replete with grace and beauty as the engraved gems of antiquity ; and when we take into consideration the important uses they have ...
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... means of the copious index annexed . Thus by the aid of these repetitions the reader will to some degree be spared the trouble of referring from one article to another , since many of them may be considered as independent essays , in ...
... means of the copious index annexed . Thus by the aid of these repetitions the reader will to some degree be spared the trouble of referring from one article to another , since many of them may be considered as independent essays , in ...
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... means we have of deter- mining the date of the gems with which they coincide in the identity of workmanship and of treatment , it seemed unad- visable to pass them over without some slight consideration . The long series of extracts ...
... means we have of deter- mining the date of the gems with which they coincide in the identity of workmanship and of treatment , it seemed unad- visable to pass them over without some slight consideration . The long series of extracts ...
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... means exclusively , to the Herz and the Mertens- Schaafhausen Collections - the former as being the best known in this country , and the latter as the one to which I have had constant access through the kindness of the present viii PREFACE ...
... means exclusively , to the Herz and the Mertens- Schaafhausen Collections - the former as being the best known in this country , and the latter as the one to which I have had constant access through the kindness of the present viii PREFACE ...
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... means of their copies on gems of a slightly later period than that of their own production . The Apoxyomenos of Callicrates , which was pronounced the " Canon " or model of statuary in bronze , but which , together with almost all the ...
... means of their copies on gems of a slightly later period than that of their own production . The Apoxyomenos of Callicrates , which was pronounced the " Canon " or model of statuary in bronze , but which , together with almost all the ...
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