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DEDICATION.

nying the Curious free Access to study and ex-amine them, acted in down-right Contradictionto the chief Uses for which Persons of truly goodTaste collect and presorve such Remains :Namely , The Ambition to excel in the Arts ofDesign, which sometimes were, and alwaysmay be em ploy’d to very useful and noble Pur-poses, an attentive Consideration of the An-tique never fails to excite in Minds, where na-tural Genius only waits a Call to disclose it self:Assistance to ingenious Students of these Artsin that laudable Pursuit: and to mention nomore, the Helps which may be continually de-rived from ancient Paintings and Sculpturesfor the right understanding of ancient Authors;the Poets in particular, by those, who unkingSkill in History and Antiquity, and a goodTaste in the Arts of Design, with Knowledgeof the ancient Languages cultivate the Studyof polite Literature in the surest as well as thelargest and most entertaining Manner.

Pliny , not improbably, uses M. Agrippa'sown Phrase, when he emphatically calls thatbarbarous Practice, exiling the best Productionsof the ingenious Arts, and robbing the Publickof the best Rouzers and Awakeners of Genius

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