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Gems, selected from the antique, with illustrations (1804)

Dagley, Richard, -1841, Murray, John, 1778-1843, Whittingham, Charles, 1767-1840 · London : Printed for John Murray, 32, Fleet Street, Dean Street by C. Whittingham · leaf 109

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ation, because we consider it as useful, while such an arrangement isundoubtedly entertaining. It is a classification, which gives the collector anew kind of pleasure, that of a narrative. There are many historical and fa-bulous events, which may be pursued in a similar manner, and a series ofgems… … f„/.:,M UarrJi24*iOot \yJ~o7aiM2irraf! 12 flrtcSa-r/t London 37 JUPITER AND THE TITANS. Jupiter darting lightning on the Giants; in the Farnese Museum, at Naples,with the name of the engraver A0HNIQN, has a flower upon the extremityof his sceptre; the same ornament is found upon the sceptre of Juno…

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